Dear community, this RFC is not directly in relation with the development of Neos. The Neos project need to do more promotion for the existing vendors that create packages for Flow & Neos. We have different plan, and an official announcement will be done later.
I’m really interested in what kind of metric help you choose a Package ? Feel free to add you bullet point in this feed, I will try to group every thing and try to sort them to see how we can build an algorithm for package recommandation and value metrics are valuable for you.
as @stolle said “last updated” is definitly an indicator - maybe not only “last updated” but also “update frequency” in general (e.g. in respect to upcoming neos-releases with core changes)?
Just be aware that such metrics could also have the opposite effect in case it’s a well done and single purpose package. It wouldn’t necessarily need to be updated regularly nor forked.
Couldn’t it just be optional which metric to sort by? With weekly downloads as default or something. Also it’s probably more useful with people actually rating packages than trying to calculate some number. Of course that depends on users being logged in.
Full ack, it’s a dangerous topic but i need input from more people. At some point we will have this “claim my package feature”, I also see something like “I use this package” pretty important.
Every metric need to be balanced, the formula from phppackages is a good start.
Different ranks like “trending”, “most stars”, “most downloads”, … could also work.
But in any case we should probably include some kind of time-factor or we will end up with a static top-x list (a little bit offtopic but still somehow related and intersting video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsCeNCVb-d8)
@aertmann: Good point. In cases updates of a package may rarely apply… Maybe add something like a monthly/quarterly “author-ping”? Just to let interested guys get an idea whether the author of the package and the package itself is still “alive” and whether the author may be available for questions or whatever.
We decide to not use the last update time to sort search result, because it’s a risky topic, we prefer to promote package activity, like download, fork, start, … and we will try to get those metric from package. The last update time, will be visible in the search result and in the package detail page.
but i need input from more people. At some point we will have this “claim my package feature”, I also see something like “I use this package” pretty important.