Sorry, intended to send this to the dev list...
> Begin forwarded message:
>
> From: Craig Treleaven <ctrelea...@macports.org>
> Subject: Re: Call for designers for our ports website
> Date: June 12, 2020 at 2:31:52 PM EDT
> To: Mojca Miklavec <mo...@macports.org>
>
>> On Jun 12, 2020, at 1:24 PM, Mojca Miklavec <mo...@macports.org> wrote:
>>
>> Dear MacPorters,
>>
>> As part of a GSOC project Arjun has been working on great new features
>> for our web application with information about ports.
>>
>> The application from last year has been deployed at
>> https://ports.macports.org/
>> while the new testing site is temporarily located at
>> http://macports.silentfox.tech/
>>
>> The website already looks nice, but if we had some talented designers
>> among our users willing to help us go one step beyond what we have
>> right now, we would be extremely grateful for either just some advice
>> or potentially some more extensive help. There are a lot of minor
>> tweaks that could be done, but neither of us is a designer, and I'm
>> not able to give any competent advice about how to best improve the
>> layout.
>>
>> Here are some concrete examples of subpages:
>> - http://macports.silentfox.tech/port/root6/
>> - http://macports.silentfox.tech/port/gnuplot/stats/?days=365&days_ago=0
>> - http://macports.silentfox.tech/search/?installed_file=&q=root&name=on
>>
>> Thank you very much in advance,
>> Mojca
>
> Not a designer, but…
>
> Re "Port Installations by month" [1]
>
> In the example referenced above, a new version of gnuplot was apparently made
> available in March 2020. At first glance, the chart used makes it look like
> the number of installations of this port jumped up from about 82 in Feb. 2020
> to 130 in March 2020; falling back in April 2020 to about 110. This,
> however, is a distortion introduced by our weekly submissions being
> summarized into monthly buckets. I believe we should be reporting the
> _percentage_ of installations by version rather than the raw numbers. Using
> this example, about 94% of reporting systems were on version 5.2.7 in Feb.
> 2020. In March, 69% of submissions identified version 5.2.7 and 27% version
> 5.2.8. In April 2020, the submissions reporting version 5.2.7 was down to
> 36% and 5.2.8 was up to 59%. I believe this more clearly communicates the
> degree to which reporters have updated to the most-recently released version.
>
> If we want to show the number of installations by month irrespective of
> version (and I think that is useful information), we should use the current
> version of the chart “Installations by month” [2]
>
>
> [1] http://macports.silentfox.tech/port/gnuplot/stats/?days=365&days_ago=0
> [2] https://ports.macports.org/port/gnuplot/stats?days=365&days_ago=0
>
>
> Craig
>
