On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 4:24 PM, Kennedy Skelton <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 suppose you also have to keep in mind existing users. You can't vote more than once so what if a package has a fairly large but stable userbase? No new votes but a definite need for the package. -- Callan Barrett
