I support three templating modules that work with HTML::Template. I also have a very limited amount of time to do open-source work. If I know that Excel::Template, for instance, was downloaded 1500 times in the past month, but Graph::Template was only downloaded 3 times, I know where I'll be putting the few hours I have. And, vice versa.

Also, if I know that a bunch of people on Darwin are downloading one of my modules, I'll work a little harder to get a Darwin testing platform. But, if I know that not a single VMS user has downloaded it, I won't care so much.

The other point is that I, as the user, would like this information. A module that's heavily installed has a weak correlation to a module that's heavily used. If it's heavily used, then it's more likely to be actively supported.

Is it a strong correlation? Probably not. Is it more info than we have? Yes.

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I shouldn't have to say this, but any code, unless otherwise stated, is untested

In reply to Re: Re: Gathering module usage statistics by dragonchild
in thread Gathering module usage statistics by Juerd

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