Tarek Ziadé wrote: > On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 11:33 AM, Jim Fulton <[email protected]> wrote: ... >> I think it would help to ask what the goals of the statistics are? The >> statistics are presumably used to answer some questions. What are those >> questions? > > A/ is my project that provides end users script but also modules that can > be reused by other apps, is: > > 1/ being installed by end users explicitly via easy_install, pip or a > direct distutils install > 2/ just pulled as a dependency for another project [...]
These questions are already too technical for judging how the stats should be computed. I think what consumers of the stats actually want to know and what the stats therefore need to be able to answer in the end is more along the lines of: - Has my project ever been used by other people? Is it worth my time to make a nice distribution of it? - Is my project still being used? How many people get mad at me if I make incompatible changes? - How many hits does my project get compared with "the competition"? What's my "market share"? Am I cool? ;o) Not that I'd find that stuff overly interesting myself, but unless there's a really good reason to add more details to the stats, I'd strongly prefer the interaction with PyPI to remain as simple as possible. -- Thomas _______________________________________________ Catalog-SIG mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/catalog-sig
