Task:Karma for applications
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* Freshmeat.net stats (when the new Freshmeat [http://help.freshmeat.net/discussions/questions/39-where-are-the-rdf-files-from-the-backend-directory#comment_120399 reimplements their APIs]) | * Freshmeat.net stats (when the new Freshmeat [http://help.freshmeat.net/discussions/questions/39-where-are-the-rdf-files-from-the-backend-directory#comment_120399 reimplements their APIs]) | ||
* Blog mentions (via Technorati, using "unixname" as tag) | * Blog mentions (via Technorati, using "unixname" as tag) | ||
| - | * Screenshots uploaded (via | + | * Screenshots uploaded (via [http://www.flickr.com/services/api/flickr.photos.search.html Flickr], using "unixname" as tag) |
* Number of contributors in Garage | * Number of contributors in Garage | ||
All karma items are counted once per week, and stored so that the development of application karma can be followed on a graph. | All karma items are counted once per week, and stored so that the development of application karma can be followed on a graph. | ||
Revision as of 17:18, 4 May 2009
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This is an ongoing task, planned to be completed during the current maemo.org development sprint. Any help is appreciated! Please see the talk page for discussion. |
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Application karma seeks to provide plausible "score number" for each application in the Maemo application catalog.
The application karma will follow a pattern familiar from Maemo's user karma (see http://maemo.org/profile/list/ and http://maemo.org/profile/view/bergie/), utilizing various sources of information about the application to calculate its activity and importance.
Goals
- Provide a simple, unified way for users and developers to judge an application's quality.
- Provide a distributed quality assurance system for handling package promotion.
Metrics for judging "quality"
These are calculated using information inside maemo.org Midgard database:
- Number of downloads
- Number of ratings
- Average rating
- Frequency of updates
- Number of releases available
- Number of OS versions supported
As well as from outside it:
- Bug activity (in Bugzilla)
- Freshmeat.net stats (when the new Freshmeat reimplements their APIs)
- Blog mentions (via Technorati, using "unixname" as tag)
- Screenshots uploaded (via Flickr, using "unixname" as tag)
- Number of contributors in Garage
All karma items are counted once per week, and stored so that the development of application karma can be followed on a graph.