That was also my vague memory. Specifically, my objection to it is that download/viewer/commit count is not a measurement of project "worthiness". Growl might be way up at the top of the download leaderboard (random example, I don't know the leaderboard) because it got slashdotted. Does that make it better than, say, python-nose, which has a couple of commits every so often, and is mostly used by pulling down a copy of the source code from version control?
The stats we could show give a project ranking that is sense-free, and developing some generic ProjectRank because the value of open source code is very much in the eye of the beholder. The stats we can relatively easily compute are "which projects are hammering the snot out of our infrastructure?", which is something only we care about :-). That said, as Ben said, we're curious, please tell us more :-). - Dave On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 00:06, Ben Collins-Sussman <[email protected]> wrote: > > Actually, it's a deliberate decision *not* to implement this, made > years ago. We think it adds essentially no value, and encourages > pointless competitive behavior. This is the first we've ever heard a > request for it. Curious to hear why it's wanted. :-) > > On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 4:18 PM, David Anderson <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> Please file a request for enhancement at http://code.google.com/p/support/ . >> >> I'm also curious as to why? Aside from the "just curious" aspect, what >> do you expect to use this for? >> >> - Dave >> >> On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 23:11, BlueBear <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Is there any Top of the most downloaded, and a featured Project page >>> like SourceForge has? >>> for example like this: >>> http://sourceforge.net/top/toplist.php?type=downloads >>> http://sourceforge.net/top/toplist.php?type=downloads_week >>> http://sourceforge.net/top/topalltime.php?type=downloads >>> Project of the month: >>> http://sourceforge.net/community/potm/ >>> >>> If not, can you (you = people working at Google) please implement it >>> >>> thanks >>> >>> > >>> >> >> > >> > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Hosting at Google Code" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-code-hosting?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
