From: Emanuel Berg <incal@dataswamp.org>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Distribution statistics for ELPA and EMMS
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2023 21:13:57 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ttrqx9fu.fsf@dataswamp.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87fs3agf84.fsf@disroot.org
Akib Azmain Turja wrote:
> How are these numbers going to be useful? This can't be
> a measure of "popularity."
Stats are always useful, they only measure what they measure
and what that is should always be stated.
> Say, for example, the package "git-commit" is 11th most
> downloaded package on MELPA. Is it really popular?
> Few people install it explicitly. Only one package depends
> on it, which is Magit, a super popular package.
> So git-commit is automatically installed as a dependency
> when Magit is installed.
Thanks for that note and do include it in the description what
the stats say.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-09-19 19:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-07-13 20:54 Distribution statistics for ELPA and EMMS Yoni Rabkin
2023-07-13 23:16 ` Eduardo Ochs
2023-07-14 7:03 ` Philip Kaludercic
2023-07-14 14:02 ` Yoni Rabkin
2023-07-14 19:45 ` Adam Porter
2023-07-17 2:25 ` Richard Stallman
2023-09-19 14:49 ` Adam Porter
2023-09-19 16:38 ` Philip Kaludercic
2023-09-19 19:00 ` Akib Azmain Turja
2023-09-19 19:13 ` Emanuel Berg [this message]
2023-09-19 19:42 ` Yoni Rabkin
2023-09-19 22:06 ` Philip Kaludercic
2023-09-07 16:46 ` Stefan Kangas
2023-09-07 17:10 ` Yoni Rabkin
2023-09-07 21:35 ` Akib Azmain Turja
2023-09-07 22:07 ` Stefan Kangas
2023-09-07 23:09 ` Lynn Winebarger
2023-09-08 7:51 ` Philip Kaludercic
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