[QGIS-Developer] Popular plugins

[Mathieu Pellerin]

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 <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
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