Re: [QGIS-Developer] Popular plugins

2019-11-14 Thread Paolo Cavallini
Thanks for all the suggestion. The sad news is that this costs time and energy, and I'm not sure there is actually people looking at these stats, thus my suggestion to possibly remove the panel altogether. is there someone willing to implement these more complex rules? cheers. Il 14/11/19 15:47, M

Re: [QGIS-Developer] Popular plugins

2019-11-14 Thread Mathieu Pellerin
Question regarding download count: if I merely upgrade a plugin, does the download to upgrade the plugin counts as an overall download? We could have a refined popularity count if we'd find a way to come up with an active users count (which shouldn't be that difficult to implement, info could be p

Re: [QGIS-Developer] Popular plugins

2019-11-14 Thread Carlo A. Bertelli (Charta s.r.l.)
What Paolo said seems a suggestion to modify the existing query. Beside popularity (downloads), the query should filter out the plugins that provide functionality already in core (by version). This means having a stronger control of the plugins and features to decide what is in and what is out for

Re: [QGIS-Developer] Popular plugins

2019-11-14 Thread C Hamilton
It appears to me that popularity should be what is currently popular. If you are only keeping track of the total downloads and not when they are downloaded, then I am not sure that category has that much meaning. Adding in the ratings probably adds a little, but as I have looked at some of the star

Re: [QGIS-Developer] Popular plugins

2019-11-14 Thread Alessandro Pasotti
Can't remember exactly why that formula, but it was carefully discussed at the time (7 years ago): https://github.com/qgis/QGIS-Django/blob/master/qgis-app/plugins/models.py#L113 On Thu, Nov 14, 2019 at 2:58 PM C Hamilton wrote: > What kind of stats are kept for the plugins? Popular plugins

Re: [QGIS-Developer] Popular plugins

2019-11-14 Thread C Hamilton
What kind of stats are kept for the plugins? Popular plugins could be those with the most downloads during the past year, but I don't know if you keep track of when the downloads occurred. Calvin On Wed, Nov 13, 2019 at 11:50 PM Paolo Cavallini wrote: > Hi all, > I noticed that the Popular plug

[QGIS-Developer] Popular plugins

2019-11-13 Thread Paolo Cavallini
Hi all, I noticed that the Popular plugins sections on our plugin web app is somewhat misleading, listing mostly plugin with a high number of downloads and good ratings in the past, not necessarily still very useful, often replaced by better alternatives in core. I'd suggest either finding a better