Re: [Haskell-cafe] The state of Hackage: what are we doing about it?

On Thursday 03 June 2010 06:27:43 am Don Stewart wrote:

I've been posting CSV files of the download statistics here:

http://www.galois.com/~dons/hackage/hackage-downloads.csv

The next quarter's aggregated downloads are due soon.

The Arch Haskell site uses these stats to compute some popularity metrics:

http://www.galois.com/~dons/arch-haskell-status.html

with that data, it should be rather easy to compute some kind weights for the packages and to prefer the popular packages during the search. In the long run it would be nice to get this statistics more frequently, e.g. monthly. We see, that within a quarter there are a lot of new packages. Uwe