On Mar 13, 2007, at 5:09 PM, Greg Knaddison - GVS wrote:
I believe dww was in favor of the awstat->project solution and Dries in favor of the "In project.module solution"
some how this issue escaped me in the run-up to my vacation in february, but behold: http://drupal.org/node/102422 someone *else* actually provided *code* for project.module to enabled download counters on all project releases. ;) needs reviews and testing, but the basic approach is there (a new column in the {project_release_nodes} table for the counter, a DB update to add it, and the download links point to a menu callback that increments the counter, then redirects to the actual downloadable file). of course, this will miss any time folks have direct links to ftp.osuosl.org (which we tend to do for core a lot in the sticky front page stories about the latest security fix, for example). that's why i'd rather just get the stats from ftp.osuosl.org directly, and have a script to parse that data and stuff it into the DB. but, i suppose the kind of counter implemented in #102422 is better than nothing (and would probably be more useful to non-d.o sites using project_release.module, anyway). anyone interested in this topic is encouraged to take a look at that patch, try it out on a local test site, etc. furthermore, please consider working on all this project quality metrics stuff for Summer of Code: http://drupal.org/node/128546 thanks, -derek (dww)