Can I get a url to the discussion.
Here's the patch that went in: http://drupal.org/node/39697 When a site chooses to enable the drupal.module and post data on its installed modules, cron will call XML-RPC to upload information on the site's name, url, etc. and all enabled modules. Optionally, sites can also send (a) total number of users, and (b) total number of nodes. These extra data are designed to provide some quantifable parameters of how large a site is, which we could use to add weight to that site's statistics. Data posted from sites are stored in the core tables 'client' (the basic information about a client site) and 'client_system' (the data on enabled modules, themes, theme engines--the same as what are found in the system.module). You can see the database definitions in database.mysql and database.pgsql. Clients are identified by a client id (cid), created the first time they connect and reused when they reconnect. In the table client_system: 'cid' -> this is the client id 'name' -> this the name of an enabled system component, e.g., 'page' 'type' -> this is the type of the enabled system component, e.g., 'module' To convert this into usable statistics we can use for browsing projects on drupal.org, we'll need to do at least two things: 1. Relate the system component to the project. Taking e-commerce as an example, there are many different modules, each of which will appear separately in the client_system table. We can use the data in the cvs module's tables to find out what project each component maps to. 2. Use a hook implemented by the Project module to implement a new browsing option. Project module uses a hook, _project_sort_methods(), to provide the information needed to implement project browsing options. See function project_project_sort_methods() in project.module. We'll need to implement a new sort method, e.g., 'popularity'. This could either be added to function project_project_sort_methods() or put in a different module, e.g., cvs. Thanks for stepping forward! I'll be happy to work with you, Gordon, or any others on implementing this. Nedjo