[QGIS-Developer] Popular plugins

[Paolo Cavallini]

Thanks for all the suggestion. The sad news is that this costs time and
energy, and I'm not sure there is actually people looking at these
stats, thus my suggestion to possibly remove the panel altogether.
is there someone willing to implement these more complex rules?
cheers.

Il 14/11/19 15:47, Mathieu Pellerin ha scritto:
> 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
> <mailto: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 <mailto: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 <mailto: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 <mailto: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.
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