Open gregdek opened 9 years ago
Note that this was debated in the Drupal community for ages, and ultimately it was decided that it would be added to project pages, but with minimal priority/importance in relation to other elements on the page. See, for example: https://www.drupal.org/project/honeypot
Since Ansible can't track 'reported installs' like Drupal.org does, it might be good to give a little more prominence to things like "Github issue count (total/closed)", "Oldest issue" and things like that.
Agreed that it's hard to show one or two metrics while mitigating the 'first to the post' problem.
We won't have any historical data here, but we need to start somewhere. Two things we'll need:
Maybe just add a request header in the Galaxy client so we know that's it a hit?
... is this better/worse than just proxying watch/star/fork?
I still like having that metric available, as downloads are an indicator of actual (and ongoing) use, whereas stars are an indication of interest/intrigue.
Slipping to 1.2
Ambivalent about this one. This creates a "first to the post" mentality; a role doesn't have to be "good" to get to the "top" position in a particular category. Still, in the absence of other better quality metrics, people want it, and maybe something is better than nothing.