Although I know that personally, I forget to vote often, there is a flaw with counting downloads: I try out a lot of packages and if they don't fit my needs, I don't want my vote/download counted.
On Sat, Dec 26, 2009 at 11:00 PM, Sebastian Nowicki <seb...@gmail.com>wrote: > Hi, > > I believe this was discussed on aur-dev some years ago, but it seems that > discussion was lost (no longer in archives). I'd like to bring up the > subject again. What do you think the best way to indicate package popularity > is? The two main ideas were votes (the current implementation) and a > download counter. I can't really recall which one was preferred. > > The issue has been raised because we're deciding which to use in "AUR2", as > a patch has been submitted to implement votes. > > I'd like to know if voting works, how effective it is, and how much > significance it has on a TU's decision to put a package into community. > Basically whether it's "broken" and needs to be "fixed" or if it's fine the > way it is. > > P.S. I didn't send this to aur-dev as it doesn't really concern the > developers. It's an end-user feature, and mostly a feature for TUs, so I > posted here. > > -- Alexander Lam