Em qua., 27 de ago. de 2025 às 07:17, IOhannes m zmoelnig via Pd-list < pd-list@lists.iem.at> escreveu:
> i don't think i will ever try to publish JOINed queries (as in: "how > many people in *china* download *else*" or "how many users of *macOS* > use *Pd-0.50*" or "who is this guy from *brazil* who keeps asking for > *Gem* to run with *Pd-0.41* on their *macOS/Sequioa*"). > Hmmm, I get it, everything we get to see is published by you, so you have to work on it and I get how all combinations would be crazy. But I thought and I could suggest people could be able to do some research. There was a suggestion to allow members to do that, and that seems reasonable. > letme rephrase my concern: if you see that your external hasn't had any > downloads for the last 24 months, would you stop publishing it (since > nobody cares anyhow)? > I for one wouldn't. I'm cursed and doomed to develop pd externals 'til the day I die, or something weird/terrible happens. > i somewhat understand the eagerness to see the performance of your own > "product". i often look for that information for my own packages (e.g. > on pypi). but to be honest, it is mostly to satisfy my own ego. > and the practical implications are nil. > I just think this could be a good tool for analyzing the ecosystem beyond what you are offering. I wrote a paper essay these days (and it got rejected for the PdMaxCon, as they didn't seem to be keen on essays) that talked a lot about the history of Pd and stuff. This would have been an amazing tool for research and analysis to help me with that research. I still wanna work on it and publish it as an essay somewhere. I'm kind of in a rush with the PdMaxCon trip coming up next week and I don't have much time to sit and make a strong case right now, so I'll just give a quick opinion. I think there are more benefits than 'risks/hazard/damage' in being able for us developers to be able to analyze this data in more detail. Even if it comes down to being "ego driven cool". I had to look what "pypi" is... as I see it, it's an example of another ecosystem that doesn't have a problem in making download and usage statistics available, which is kind of my point. I don't think the idea there is only to attend to people's egos, but make researchers and developers understand and analyze the trends. I don't wanna dismiss the concerns, and maybe I'm just not really getting them. Or maybe it's all a matter of opinion and this is mine. cheers
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