At one time there were some apps which reported back "usage" from
people's systems and showed package versions in use? Now, whilst this
in itself is not an indication of package quality or bug-freeness.
Perhaps it would be an interesting datastream to assist in deciding
whether to mark a package stable or not?
An incremental improvement to such a plan might be to consider how to
split the data into high quality devs and testers running stuff stuff,
keen users and dev boxes (which might be crashing and are of low quality).
Sure it's a fairly low quality data source, but it might give a bit of
confidence to take a punt unmasking a package if you can see that others
are using it "actively"?
Just my 2p
Ed W
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