On Sat, 2008-11-29 at 23:38 -0800, Drew Frank wrote: > 2. Both vote counts and pkgstats statistics, as they are currently > generated, are flawed metrics of package popularity. > > 3. Nearly all of the controversy over various [Community] admission > policies stems from the fact that different people place different > levels of trust in the information provided by votes and pkgstats. > > I feel like I'm a bit late to the party, but unless there is a > critical need to act now my recommendation would be to first set up a > system whereby accurate usage statistics are obtained and then proceed > to develop policy based on accurate, interpretable statistics.
How do you want to measure the usage correctly? Then we would need a community-layer to pacman wo notifies AUR whenever a package from community is installed or deleted. But that won't happen due to privacy concerns.
