2009/1/4 Evangelos Foutras <foutrelis@gmail.com>:

Vitaliy Berdinskikh wrote:

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Hi all,

I propose to make package's votes equal zero after update. All users vote when they update package. Maintainer has true statistic about package usage.

Whan do you think about?

I don't believe that this is a good idea. People's votes go towards a package and not a specific version of it. I highly doubt that anyone (myself included) would bother to vote after each package upgrade.

For statistical purposes, would it not make sense to have the system record when a vote was submitted and package version information at the time, but still display a full vote count? That way consideration could still be made based on a general vote count, but a clearly visible lack of votes in the last year or two could be used to ascertain whether it is still considered as useful, as perhaps the lack of new votes means another package has replaced and surpassed its functionality.

I don't believe that this is a good idea. People's votes go towards a package and not a specific version of it. I highly doubt that anyone (myself included) would bother to vote after each package upgrade.

Also votes are not meant to specifically reflect usage, just interest. The votes do not mean that the person uses that particular software, nor does it mean they think the PKGBUILD itself is of high quality, etc. Resetting the number for each version doesn't make sense for the purposes of tracking usage since that's not really what the votes are for in the first place. Aaron "ElasticDog" Schaefer --