• aberba (9/9) Jan 14 2019 Currently, the dub registry shows the most popular packages which
• bauss (8/18) Jan 14 2019 I think a better way would be to have a rotation and then show
• aberba (2/5) Jan 14 2019 Sounds useful too
• Guillaume Piolat (7/17) Jan 14 2019 What I don't like is that you get penalized for Open Issues...
• Atila Neves (4/12) Jan 14 2019 I'd make sense if the issues were all bugs, but that'd rely on

aberba <karabutaworld gmail.com> writes:

Currently, the dub registry shows the most popular packages which 
pretty much always stays same...probably some are used as 
dependencies in other popular libs, raising their download count 
(which I believe is or is part of what's used for the ranking).

That alone is not very useful , I think I would like to see 
something like trending packages... to get a sense of what people 
are using as a first sign when choosing a package in the dub 
registry.. or yet still, allow us to see sort/see other/all 
packages based on popularity.

bauss <jj_1337 live.dk> writes:

On Monday, 14 January 2019 at 13:17:13 UTC, aberba wrote:
 Currently, the dub registry shows the most popular packages 
 which pretty much always stays same...probably some are used as 
 dependencies in other popular libs, raising their download 
 count (which I believe is or is part of what's used for the 
 ranking).

 That alone is not very useful , I think I would like to see 
 something like trending packages... to get a sense of what 
 people are using as a first sign when choosing a package in the 
 dub registry.. or yet still, allow us to see sort/see other/all 
 packages based on popularity.

I think a better way would be to have a rotation and then show 
packages with only a specific ranking like > 2.5 or something.

That way the list will change, but it'll still be of packages 
that are "popular".

I agree that it's not really a great column to have.

The alternative to a rotation would be listing top packages for 
different categories.

aberba <karabutaworld gmail.com> writes:

On Monday, 14 January 2019 at 13:21:05 UTC, bauss wrote:
 On Monday, 14 January 2019 at 13:17:13 UTC, aberba wrote:

 The alternative to a rotation would be listing top packages for 
 different categories.

Sounds useful too

Guillaume Piolat <first.last gmail.com> writes:

On Monday, 14 January 2019 at 13:17:13 UTC, aberba wrote:
 Currently, the dub registry shows the most popular packages 
 which pretty much always stays same...probably some are used as 
 dependencies in other popular libs, raising their download 
 count (which I believe is or is part of what's used for the 
 ranking).

 That alone is not very useful , I think I would like to see 
 something like trending packages... to get a sense of what 
 people are using as a first sign when choosing a package in the 
 dub registry.. or yet still, allow us to see sort/see other/all 
 packages based on popularity.

What I don't like is that you get penalized for Open Issues... 
which is a good indicator of popularity.

Also if you have 10 open Issues you get the same rating whether 
you have 0 closed issues or 100 closed issues.
But to me, the ratio of open/close is a measure of how well a 
project is maintained.

Atila Neves <atila.neves gmail.com> writes:

On Monday, 14 January 2019 at 13:25:25 UTC, Guillaume Piolat 
wrote:
 On Monday, 14 January 2019 at 13:17:13 UTC, aberba wrote:
 [...]

 What I don't like is that you get penalized for Open Issues... 
 which is a good indicator of popularity.

 Also if you have 10 open Issues you get the same rating whether 
 you have 0 closed issues or 100 closed issues.
 But to me, the ratio of open/close is a measure of how well a 
 project is maintained.

I'd make sense if the issues were all bugs, but that'd rely on 
the package maintainer to accurately assign labels.