Question regarding download count: if I merely upgrade a plugin, does the download to upgrade the plugin counts as an overall download?
We could have a refined popularity count if we'd find a way to come up with an active users count (which shouldn't be that difficult to implement, info could be passed on as a GET parameter when users routinely fetch an updated reposity XML. Beyond that, it could be interesting to come up with a new "Trending" plugin, which would rely on a fixed time range (say latest tree months) metrics. That'd help making new plugins create more momentum. On Thu, Nov 14, 2019, 21:37 C Hamilton <[email protected]> wrote: > It appears to me that popularity should be what is currently popular. If > you are only keeping track of the total downloads and not when they are > downloaded, then I am not sure that category has that much meaning. Adding > in the ratings probably adds a little, but as I have looked at some of the > star rankings of some plugins, tested their usefulness, how well they > perform, and how may downloads they have vs stars, I wonder whether some of > the rankings have been artificially inflated. The net result is that I > don't believe some of them. I'm not sure there is a good solution to the > popularity question. My suggestion is to make it dependent on only the past > year's downloads and not the total if you have those stats and then somehow > add in the star rankings from the past year as well. > > On Thu, Nov 14, 2019 at 9:01 AM Alessandro Pasotti <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> >> >> Can't remember exactly why that formula, but it was carefully discussed >> at the time (7 years ago): >> >> >> https://github.com/qgis/QGIS-Django/blob/master/qgis-app/plugins/models.py#L113 >> >> >> >> >> On Thu, Nov 14, 2019 at 2:58 PM C Hamilton <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> What kind of stats are kept for the plugins? Popular plugins could be >>> those with the most downloads during the past year, but I don't know if you >>> keep track of when the downloads occurred. >>> >>> Calvin >>> >>> On Wed, Nov 13, 2019 at 11:50 PM Paolo Cavallini <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> Hi all, >>>> I noticed that the Popular plugins sections on our plugin web app is >>>> somewhat misleading, listing mostly plugin with a high number of >>>> downloads and good ratings in the past, not necessarily still very >>>> useful, often replaced by better alternatives in core. >>>> I'd suggest either finding a better query (not easy to design, I >>>> remember Alessandro and me spending some time on this years ago) or drop >>>> it altogether. >>>> Opinions? >>>> Cheers. >>>> -- >>>> Paolo Cavallini - www.faunalia.eu >>>> QGIS.ORG Chair: >>>> http://planet.qgis.org/planet/user/28/tag/qgis%20board/ >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> QGIS-Developer mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> List info: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer >>>> Unsubscribe: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> QGIS-Developer mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> List info: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer >>> Unsubscribe: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer >> >> >> >> -- >> Alessandro Pasotti >> w3: www.itopen.it >> > _______________________________________________ > QGIS-Developer mailing list > [email protected] > List info: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer > Unsubscribe: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer
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