1 Sep
2007
1 Sep
'07
9:29 p.m.
A really simple way to track the "quality" of a package is to display the number of downloads. A posteriorae, this works great in other download sites. We can easily hypothesize about why a download count gives a decent indication of some measure of quality: - more people downloading it means more people specifically wanted that package - more people downloading it means more people trying it, giving feedback, maybe giving patches - and, of course, it's an objective measure, easy to do