Survey of dsource projects

[David Wilson]

I don't understand, what is the use case for these stats? The
sourceforge.net project stats have been in all the years of that site,
practically useless. Measuring commits, LOC change, downloads forum
posts, etc., is no good measure of a project's "rating" or
"progression". I just don't see the point.

I see no reason why a project that hasn't been touched in 10 years,
but has a stable, mature code base should be ranked lower than some
college project that is getting 100 feverish commits a day from some
OCD victim making whitespace changes.* :)

+1 for alphabetical order or some sane categorisation scheme
-1 for anything other than a nice summary page showing recent commits,
forum topics, etc.


David

* Sometimes I make lots of whitespace commits ;)

On 2/20/08, jcc7 <technocrat7 at gmail.com> wrote:
> == Quote from guslay (guslay at gmail.com)'s article
>
> > Christopher Wright Wrote:
>  > > This is a very vague sorting of dsource projects by activity level
>  > > (and then alphabetic).
>  > > Anything in the 'dead' category is probably six months old or more
>  > > and has no commits, or has had no commits in the past year.
>  >
>  > Is there a way with Trac to rate projects based on activity (recent
>  > commits, documentation change or forum posts), downloads,
>  > subscribers or user rating -- something?
>  >
>  > The top-ranked projects in each category could be listed first, with
>  > their associated rating - on the Projects page and the Forums. An
>  > abridged list of top projects could also be displayed the main page.
>  >
>  > It would help new users to approach this huge list, and the list of
>  > relevant projects would sort by itself.
>  >
>  > Listing projects by merit would also give maintainers of active
>  > projects an incentive to promote and maintain the visibility of
>  > their tool.
>  >
>  > G.
>
>
> This topic has come up in a dsource forum:
>  http://www.dsource.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p=16032#16032
>
>  Brad, the guy who runs Dsource, has been planning on adding some project activity
>  statistics, but he works on Dsource in his free time, and I guess he hasn't had
>  enough time to get it worked out.
>
>  In the meantime, volunteers could maintain a wiki page (at dsource or wiki4d or
>  elsewhere) to provide some of this information, but I'm not sure how urgent the
>  issue is.
>