On Mon, Feb 16, 2004 at 10:43:13AM +0000, Tim Bunce wrote: > Argues for more stats. I think useful *relative* download stats > could be extracted from a sample of CPAN sites. Also search.cpan.org > could provide relative page-*view* stats for modules.
Agreed. There is the "mirrors problem" of course, but even having stats from one mirror could be really useful for ranking results. And also could provide a picture of what the Perl community is doing as a whole. I know about http://www.cpan.org/misc/cpan-faq.html#Plans_for_statistics and Mr. XXX Ginsparg's opinion, but times change don't they? I'm not suggesting that we make the statistics data available for download by Total<CTRL-w>Terrorist Information Awareness cronies however... :) //Ed -- Ed Summers aim: inkdroid web: http://www.inkdroid.org Dealing with failure is easy: Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle: You've solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve. [Alan Perlis]
