On Nov 15, 2006, at 1:31 PM, Dries Buytaert wrote:
Better yet would be to track downloads from within the project module. Then we can sort projects by number of downloads.
http://drupal.org/node/66015 http://drupal.org/node/52475 much easier to implement now with new release system. either directly in the {project_release_nodes} table (new column called "num_downloads") or in a {project_release_downloads} (with 2 columns: nid, num), we could store the data in the DB. we just need a cron job running on d.o to periodically take the raw download stats and update the DB correctly. we could display this info in 3 places: 1) on each release node itself 2) next to the "Download" link in all the existing project browsing pages 3) add a new "Browse by popularity" sorting method (that's what #52475 is talking about). patches welcome. ;) -derek p.s. arguably, the project node and the browse-by summaries should use the total of all downloads across all release nodes for that project. i'll leave that debate for others to hash out.