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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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https://dataswamp.org/~incal




  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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