[QGIS-Developer] Popular plugins

Thu Nov 14 06:46:29 PST 2019

What Paolo said seems a suggestion to modify the existing query. Beside
popularity (downloads), the query should filter out the plugins that
provide functionality already in core (by version). This means having a
stronger control of the plugins and features to decide what is in and what
is out for any version. The funny thing is that the new features for any
version are (loosely) tied to the most requested plugin features.

On Thu, Nov 14, 2019 at 3:36 PM C Hamilton <adenaculture at gmail.com> 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 <apasotti at gmail.com>
> 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 <adenaculture at gmail.com>
>> 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 <cavallini at faunalia.it>
>>> 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/
>>>> _______________________________________________
>>>>
>>>
>> --
>> Alessandro Pasotti
>> w3:   www.itopen.it
>>
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