Currently, the dub registry shows the most popular packages which pretty much always stays same...probably some are used as dependencies in other popular libs, raising their download count (which I believe is or is part of what's used for the ranking).

That alone is not very useful , I think I would like to see something like trending packages... to get a sense of what people are using as a first sign when choosing a package in the dub registry.. or yet still, allow us to see sort/see other/all packages based on popularity.

On Monday, 14 January 2019 at 13:17:13 UTC, aberba wrote:
> Currently, the dub registry shows the most popular packages which pretty much always stays same...probably some are used as dependencies in other popular libs, raising their download count (which I believe is or is part of what's used for the ranking).
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> That alone is not very useful , I think I would like to see something like trending packages... to get a sense of what people are using as a first sign when choosing a package in the dub registry.. or yet still, allow us to see sort/see other/all packages based on popularity.

I think a better way would be to have a rotation and then show packages with only a specific ranking like > 2.5 or something.

That way the list will change, but it'll still be of packages that are "popular".

I agree that it's not really a great column to have.

The alternative to a rotation would be listing top packages for different categories.

On Monday, 14 January 2019 at 13:17:13 UTC, aberba wrote:
> Currently, the dub registry shows the most popular packages which pretty much always stays same...probably some are used as dependencies in other popular libs, raising their download count (which I believe is or is part of what's used for the ranking).
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> That alone is not very useful , I think I would like to see something like trending packages... to get a sense of what people are using as a first sign when choosing a package in the dub registry.. or yet still, allow us to see sort/see other/all packages based on popularity.

What I don't like is that you get penalized for Open Issues... which is a good indicator of popularity.

Also if you have 10 open Issues you get the same rating whether you have 0 closed issues or 100 closed issues.
But to me, the ratio of open/close is a measure of how well a project is maintained.

On Monday, 14 January 2019 at 13:21:05 UTC, bauss wrote:
> On Monday, 14 January 2019 at 13:17:13 UTC, aberba wrote:

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> The alternative to a rotation would be listing top packages for different categories.
Sounds useful too

On Monday, 14 January 2019 at 13:25:25 UTC, Guillaume Piolat wrote:
> On Monday, 14 January 2019 at 13:17:13 UTC, aberba wrote:
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> What I don't like is that you get penalized for Open Issues... which is a good indicator of popularity.
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> Also if you have 10 open Issues you get the same rating whether you have 0 closed issues or 100 closed issues.
> But to me, the ratio of open/close is a measure of how well a project is maintained.

I'd make sense if the issues were all bugs, but that'd rely on the package maintainer to accurately assign labels.