From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Distribution statistics for ELPA and EMMS Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2023 21:13:57 +0200 Message-ID: <87ttrqx9fu.fsf@dataswamp.org> References: <875y6mzj4n.fsf@rabkins.net> <2f28dcca-3f8b-eb7b-95ec-1867c0d1eaf4@alphapapa.net> <4da4d2f6-2197-3727-674e-034c353207c5@alphapapa.net> <87o7hy9kzz.fsf@posteo.net> <87fs3agf84.fsf@disroot.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="4729"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:Azh7XGMdXALCkGwvjvfu3eeHgEU= Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Sep 19 21:18:22 2023 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1qigEm-0000tS-Sl for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 19 Sep 2023 21:18:20 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qigDp-0005Vl-Dj; Tue, 19 Sep 2023 15:17:21 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qigAk-0003AJ-3T for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Sep 2023 15:14:10 -0400 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qigAg-0007NZ-7m for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Sep 2023 15:14:09 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1qigAe-0005sH-GH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Sep 2023 21:14:04 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Mail-Copies-To: never Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -16 X-Spam_score: -1.7 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.7 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.249, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-Mailman-Approved-At: Tue, 19 Sep 2023 15:17:16 -0400 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:310793 Archived-At: 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. -- underground experts united https://dataswamp.org/~incal