[Qgis-developer] Plugin Installer statistics and contacts

[Barry Rowlingson]

2009/3/12 Borys Jurgiel <borysiasty at aster.pl>:

> I think this task is directed to the repository maintainers rather than to the
> Installer. A php script could catch every Installer's request for given .zip
> package and update the <download> tag in the repository xml. I hope it makes
> sense?
>
> The installer can, of course, display the counter value if present in the xml
> file. In the future, as tags are getting more and more, we will have to change
> the layout of the Installer window and add a bigger html viewer. Then there will
> be place even for voting ;)

 I just did a quick grep and count from our web server logs, just for
the heck of it:

     20	autosave.zip
     51	clickfu.zip
     43	rasterlang.zip
     35	selectplus.zip
     27	spqr.zip
     84	topocolour.zip

 I reckon a lot of them might be robots though, since this is only
since Feb 24th and I've not had proportionally enough bug reports for
me to think this many people are using my code!

 There's been a debate on the R mailing list about assessing add-on
package quality from download counts. No definite conclusion was
reached!

Barry