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On Wednesday, 4 April 2012 13:52:20 UTC+10, Roly Fentanes wrote: > > Have you looked at http://toolbox.no.de/ > > there is also http://eirikb.github.com/nipster/ > > On Tuesday, April 3, 2012 6:15:38 AM UTC-7, Jeff Kunkle wrote: >> >> Having used node steadily for the past six months, one of the biggest >> problems I have is finding quality packages. It's easy to simply find >> packages for a particular task, but determining which are well written, >> performant, and carefully maintained is not straightforward. And somewhat >> related, as a developer of several open source packages I'm often left >> wondering if anyone is actually using them. How do I decide which packages >> to spend time on without knowing which are most used, if at all? I realize >> I can look to see what is most depended upon at search.npmjs.org but >> that's only a partial picture. Packages that are more likely to be >> leveraged in end-user applications are underrepresented, if they even >> appear there at all. >> >> Would there be any community interest in developing a basic package usage >> tracking capability? Maybe something like a simple package/file that can be >> included in a package to count each time the package is installed or >> required and report the results back to a central website on some interval. >> Such a basic capability would be incredibly valuable to developers and >> users. Users can then quickly determine which packages are well used/tested >> and developers get to see which of their projects are actually being used. >> I can imagine a whole host of other useful capabilities like collecting >> metrics on API usage for help in understanding the potential impact of an >> API change, but all of it would be secondary to a basic usage counting >> ability. >> >> I'm sure there will be privacy concerns, but I think we can work to >> address them if there's enough interest in such a capability. I'm more than >> willing to have those discussions and work on a solution if people think >> it's worthwhile. >> > -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" 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/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en
