Re: [aur-general] How the Popularity value is being calculated for a package in the AUR4?
On 2015-06-12 10:01, Lukas Fleischer wrote: 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 Given how it's calculated, and the purpose it intends to serve, I believe the proper word is trending, not popularity. -- Hugo Osvaldo Barrera A: Because we read from top to bottom, left to right. Q: Why should I start my reply below the quoted text? signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [aur-general] How the Popularity value is being calculated for a package in the AUR4?
Am 18.06.2015 um 18:33 schrieb Connor Behan:
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Does anyone know an easy way to hide Popularity with a userscript or
userstyle? [...]
Given that the index of the column not changes, this works:
$('table.results thead tr th:nth-child(5)').hide();
$('table.results tbody tr td:nth-child(5)').hide();
First line removes the header, second line the values. It may not be the
best solution, but I did not find a better way than counting to get the
right column. It uses jQuery from the AUR page, if you want to use it
from a user script you may need a way to inject it.
best regards,
carstene1ns
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Re: [aur-general] How the Popularity value is being calculated for a package in the AUR4?
On 12/06/15 07:45 AM, Martti Kühne wrote: On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 1:38 PM, Magnus Therning mag...@therning.org wrote: No, and valuable != popular :) Any popularity contest is going to be biased in some way. This is as good a bias as any other. And let's leave completely out of focus that the bias that is needed for a package to enter the official repositories is the personal opinion of a TU or Dev. Does anyone know an easy way to hide Popularity with a userscript or userstyle? I currently call $(input[type=text]).unbind().attr(autocomplete, on); to disable search suggestions since I can't stand websites suggesting that I do popular things. I'm sure this is a useful metric for some, but I'm not fond of seeing a column of almost all zeros in searches. I think the only packages that maintain a high popularity will be things like yaourt where people keep voting it up because they mistakenly think it will one day go to [community]. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [aur-general] How the Popularity value is being calculated for a package in the AUR4?
* Andrejs Mivreņiks m...@gim.fastmail.fm (Fri, 12 Jun 2015 10:26:08 +0300): I noticed that the Popularity colon has been added to the list of packages. What does this value actually mean? How is it being calculated? 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. Best, Marcel
Re: [aur-general] How the Popularity value is being calculated for a package in the AUR4?
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
Re: [aur-general] How the Popularity value is being calculated for a package in the AUR4?
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? signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [aur-general] How the Popularity value is being calculated for a package in the AUR4?
On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 1:38 PM, Magnus Therning mag...@therning.org wrote: No, and valuable != popular :) Any popularity contest is going to be biased in some way. This is as good a bias as any other. And let's leave completely out of focus that the bias that is needed for a package to enter the official repositories is the personal opinion of a TU or Dev. The rate recording is optimized to emphasize wide adoption trends, which to me appear completely spot-on. What aspect is missing there? cheers! mar77i
Re: [aur-general] How the Popularity value is being calculated for a package in the AUR4?
On 12 June 2015 at 13:11, LoneVVolf lonew...@xs4all.nl wrote: On 12-06-15 10:01, Lukas Fleischer wrote: Also, we don't care about packages that were very popular a year ago and are no longer used today. Low number of new votes != not used anymore Many high quality, useful packages target a specific group of users. Does that make them less valuable ? No, and valuable != popular :) Any popularity contest is going to be biased in some way. This is as good a bias as any other. /M -- Magnus Therning OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4 email: mag...@therning.org jabber: mag...@therning.org twitter: magthe http://therning.org/magnus
Re: [aur-general] How the Popularity value is being calculated for a package in the AUR4?
On 12-06-15 10:01, Lukas Fleischer wrote: Also, we don't care about packages that were very popular a year ago and are no longer used today. Low number of new votes != not used anymore Many high quality, useful packages target a specific group of users. Does that make them less valuable ? LVV
