On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 1:25 PM, Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Isn't any package popularity rating going to be hugely skewed such that > the 'default install set' packages are basically always rated top, making > rankings of dubious value I personally see zero value in a flat popularity rating. I would see more value if we could find a way to correlate users such that I could datamine the application preferences of people who were already running systems similar to mine. For example, XFCE users as a breed might prefer certain applications which are not 'popular' in the general userbase, but were immensely popular inside the XFCE subculture. Those shared preferences would never show up in a flat popularity rating..a rating destined to be dominated by FVWM2 users...so such a flat rating would never really be what XFCE users would find value in. But if we had a way to correlate a systems/usages/people with other systems/usages/people which are mostly similar, then we have something interesting as a metric...a metric that can support both common and niche subgroups..based solely on individual usage cases or habits. That way XCFE users, would end up correlating with other XCFE users and would have the software 'popularity' ranking biased by that correlation. It would end up being dynamic, in that as your usage patterns changed, how you would correlate with others would change as well without anyone elses habits changing. Centralization of 'popularity' is simply not flexible enough to be interesting in the brave new world of the social network. -jef"Did i mention that I hate social networking"spaleta -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
