On May 28 21:36:58, [email protected] wrote: > Hi, > > On 28 May 2013, at 08:12 PM, Jean-François Caron <[email protected]> wrote: > > > While download statistics might not be a good system, I do concur that > > MacPorts very much would benefit from having a "discovery" mechanism by > > which users find out about useful ports. Searching is nice, but it's not > > discovery. Some kind of "top ports" list (however implemented) would be > > useful, imho. > > Personally, I fail to see how a 'top ports' list would tell me much. The > ports i find essential are likely very different from others, so i don't see > how using some sort of a list showing the most used ports would help me in > any way in choosing new ones to install. Some ports likely have a low user > base, but never less are critical to those that need them, such as more > esoteric ports from the science section.
+1 let's say it turns out people download firefox a lot. then what? > Maybe such a list might be of some limited interest to developers, so we know > which ports are most used, and perhaps more usefully those without users, but > beyond that i doubt such a list would tell us much or help users. What would > help users i think would be to have a much better search/browsing interface, > to allow them to browse available ports. > > Chris > > > > > I do like the idea of opt-inable call-home reporting about which ports are > > installed. Even if a minority opts-in, it would be useful. Ubuntu does a > > similar thing IIRC. For non-end-users, it would also inform port > > maintainers about how many people depend on their work. > > > > Jean-François > > > > Begin forwarded message: > > > >> Re: Suggestion > > > > _______________________________________________ > > macports-users mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users > _______________________________________________ > macports-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users
