[maemo-developers] Download statistics

[From: Niels Breet]

On Wed, March 17, 2010 12:58, Cornelius Hald wrote:
> Alberto Mardegan wrote:
>
>> Cornelius Hald wrote:
>>
>>> Also using the current download count for the "Popular" section of
>>> Downloads seems a bit unfair then. Shouldn't it be at least
>>> downloads/num_of_releases? Or better
>>> downloads_from_extras/num_of_releases?
>>
>> I don't think it's possible to know whether it is a new download, or an
>>  update.
>
> No, I don´t think either. But if we get numbers for each release, we
> could see something like:
>
> Ver  Downl.
> 0.2  1000
> 0.3  1200
> 0.4  1300
> 0.5   700
> 0.6   200
>
>
> This would at least show, that with version 0.5 people have somehow lost
> interest. Maybe I´ve made some radical UI changes that most people don´t
> like. Or maybe there is another (better) tool for the same task, etc...
>
Lot of work, there are other more important things to fix first.
Statistics are nice to look at every once in a while, other than that..
There is this saying about lies.

>> But maybe limiting the download count for the packages downloaded from
>> Extras only makes more sense.
>>
>
> Which application is more popular? Which has more downloads? This shows,
> that is is especially unfair to young applications.
>

This is why we have app karma, which drives the Popular list.

If you look that design discussion up, you'll see that we use _relative_
download change, comments and ratings on a daily basis.

Popular certainly doesn't show the most downloaded apps.

>
> Cheers!
> Conny

- Niels