On Fri, 12 Jun 2015 at 09:43:00, G. Schlisio wrote: > > Lukas on aur-dev: "Popularity is the sum of all votes with each vote > > being weighted with a factor of 0.98 per day since its creation." > > thats quite a fast wear-off, i think. > after a year, there is virtually nothing left (6e-4 only). > does this really meet the intention? >
Yes. The main purpose of the popularity field is to give very popular newcomers a chance to appear on the front page. Also, we don't care about packages that were very popular a year ago and are no longer used today. If a package is still interesting, it will continuously receive new votes such as is the case with yaourt. Regards, Lukas