Pkg3, the next generation package manager I'm working on will likely include optional telemetry collection. You'll be asked to opt in or out when you first use it.
On Tue, Nov 15, 2016 at 5:02 AM, Jérôme Collet <jeromepcol...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > > I am new to Julia, I used to use R. And using R packages, the main > difficulty for me is the choice of a package for a given task. Most of the > time, there are many packages solving the same problem, so we have to > choose. > > - A first possibility could be the TaskViews, but it is easy to see > that around a third of all packages is listed in a TaskView, so being > listed does not say anything about quality. > - Thanks to Rstudio, it is possible to know how many times a given > package was downloaded. It is an indication about package quality. But this > indication is difficult to obtain, and not very reliable. > - I heard that in Matlab, it is easy to know the experience about a > package, or even a function of a package, compared to other similar > functions in another packages. > > So, are there any plans to collect, store and share the experience on > packages? >
