Hi, On 28 May 2013, at 08:12 PM, Jean-François Caron <jfca...@phas.ubc.ca> wrote:
> While download statistics might not be a good system, I do concur that > MacPorts very much would benefit from having a "discovery" mechanism by which > users find out about useful ports. Searching is nice, but it's not > discovery. Some kind of "top ports" list (however implemented) would be > useful, imho. Personally, I fail to see how a 'top ports' list would tell me much. The ports i find essential are likely very different from others, so i don't see how using some sort of a list showing the most used ports would help me in any way in choosing new ones to install. Some ports likely have a low user base, but never less are critical to those that need them, such as more esoteric ports from the science section. Maybe such a list might be of some limited interest to developers, so we know which ports are most used, and perhaps more usefully those without users, but beyond that i doubt such a list would tell us much or help users. What would help users i think would be to have a much better search/browsing interface, to allow them to browse available ports. Chris > > I do like the idea of opt-inable call-home reporting about which ports are > installed. Even if a minority opts-in, it would be useful. Ubuntu does a > similar thing IIRC. For non-end-users, it would also inform port maintainers > about how many people depend on their work. > > Jean-François > > Begin forwarded message: > >> Re: Suggestion > > _______________________________________________ > macports-users mailing list > macports-users@lists.macosforge.org > https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users
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