On 12/26/2009 10:00 PM, Sebastian Nowicki wrote: > Hi, > > I believe this was discussed on aur-dev some years ago, but it seems > that discussion was lost (no longer in archives). I'd like to bring up > the subject again. What do you think the best way to indicate package > popularity is? The two main ideas were votes (the current > implementation) and a download counter. I can't really recall which one > was preferred. > > The issue has been raised because we're deciding which to use in "AUR2", > as a patch has been submitted to implement votes. > > I'd like to know if voting works, how effective it is, and how much > significance it has on a TU's decision to put a package into community. > Basically whether it's "broken" and needs to be "fixed" or if it's fine > the way it is. > > P.S. I didn't send this to aur-dev as it doesn't really concern the > developers. It's an end-user feature, and mostly a feature for TUs, so I > posted here.
that is (or at least has been) a much thornier question than i think you think it is. search through this list's archives around starting around november of 2008. this might be a good starting point: http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-general/2008-November/002790.html some choice reading there! -kludge
