Re: [aur-general] How the Popularity value is being calculated for a package in the AUR4?

2015-06-19 Thread Hugo Osvaldo Barrera
On 2015-06-12 10:01, Lukas Fleischer wrote: On Fri, 12 Jun 2015 at 09:43:00, G. Schlisio wrote: Lukas on aur-dev: Popularity is the sum of all votes with each vote being weighted with a factor of 0.98 per day since its creation. thats quite a fast wear-off, i think. after a year,

Re: [aur-general] How the Popularity value is being calculated for a package in the AUR4?

2015-06-19 Thread carstene1ns
Am 18.06.2015 um 18:33 schrieb Connor Behan: [...] Does anyone know an easy way to hide Popularity with a userscript or userstyle? [...] Given that the index of the column not changes, this works: $('table.results thead tr th:nth-child(5)').hide(); $('table.results tbody tr

Re: [aur-general] How the Popularity value is being calculated for a package in the AUR4?

2015-06-18 Thread Connor Behan
On 12/06/15 07:45 AM, Martti Kühne wrote: On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 1:38 PM, Magnus Therning mag...@therning.org wrote: No, and valuable != popular :) Any popularity contest is going to be biased in some way. This is as good a bias as any other. And let's leave completely out of focus that

Re: [aur-general] How the Popularity value is being calculated for a package in the AUR4?

2015-06-12 Thread Marcel Korpel
* Andrejs Mivreņiks m...@gim.fastmail.fm (Fri, 12 Jun 2015 10:26:08 +0300): I noticed that the Popularity colon has been added to the list of packages. What does this value actually mean? How is it being calculated? Lukas on aur-dev: Popularity is the sum of all votes with each vote being

Re: [aur-general] How the Popularity value is being calculated for a package in the AUR4?

2015-06-12 Thread Lukas Fleischer
On Fri, 12 Jun 2015 at 09:43:00, G. Schlisio wrote: Lukas on aur-dev: Popularity is the sum of all votes with each vote being weighted with a factor of 0.98 per day since its creation. thats quite a fast wear-off, i think. after a year, there is virtually nothing left (6e-4 only). does

Re: [aur-general] How the Popularity value is being calculated for a package in the AUR4?

2015-06-12 Thread G. Schlisio
Lukas on aur-dev: Popularity is the sum of all votes with each vote being weighted with a factor of 0.98 per day since its creation. thats quite a fast wear-off, i think. after a year, there is virtually nothing left (6e-4 only). does this really meet the intention? signature.asc

Re: [aur-general] How the Popularity value is being calculated for a package in the AUR4?

2015-06-12 Thread Martti Kühne
On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 1:38 PM, Magnus Therning mag...@therning.org wrote: No, and valuable != popular :) Any popularity contest is going to be biased in some way. This is as good a bias as any other. And let's leave completely out of focus that the bias that is needed for a package to

Re: [aur-general] How the Popularity value is being calculated for a package in the AUR4?

2015-06-12 Thread Magnus Therning
On 12 June 2015 at 13:11, LoneVVolf lonew...@xs4all.nl wrote: On 12-06-15 10:01, Lukas Fleischer wrote: Also, we don't care about packages that were very popular a year ago and are no longer used today. Low number of new votes != not used anymore Many high quality, useful packages target

Re: [aur-general] How the Popularity value is being calculated for a package in the AUR4?

2015-06-12 Thread LoneVVolf
On 12-06-15 10:01, Lukas Fleischer wrote: Also, we don't care about packages that were very popular a year ago and are no longer used today. Low number of new votes != not used anymore Many high quality, useful packages target a specific group of users. Does that make them less valuable ? LVV