Show PPA download stats in the web UI

Sounds good to me. In what concerns individual packages, I think it might be worth adding a column to the package list (i.e. https://launchpad.net/~zyv/+archive/ppa ) with a total number of downloads of the files associated with the package.

In the detailed list view, I think, one can add download counts in parenthesis after the sizes of the individual files: https://launchpad.net/~zyv/+archive/ppa/+packages . I.e. mc_4.7.0.9.orig.tar.gz (3.8 MiB, 123 downloads)

The daily builds PPAs will always be the most used because there are... well, daily updates and thus downloads :) So this won't useful.

Oh wait, I see that the plan is to only count the downloads for the latest version. Than it should be OK so please ignore my above comment.

otoh, if it's for the latest version only, it won't be of much use for daily builds, for which the version doesn't really matter.

As a maintainer of a lot of daily builds, i need stats to:
1/ see which dists are popular and need continuous love vs which dists could be dropped because they no longer have (enough?) active users
2/ how many people i gain and loose over time for a particular ppa/pkg/dist/arch.

My case here may be a bit special. I want to be able to put some figures on http://people.ubuntu.com/~fta/ppa-dashboard/chromium-daily.html and http://people.ubuntu.com/~fta/ppa-dashboard/ubuntu-mozilla-daily--ppa.html

I'm especially interested to see if people migrate from a channel to another, or from the official archive to a ppa or back.
Also, how long does it take for users to upgrade after a security update lands.

I agree with Fabien.

As a package maintainer, releasing -rc and backports, I want to have feedback
on which dist/arch I need to put efforts on.

I also want to know if users migrate from the official package to the edge one.

However in my case, it is not daily builds but releases synchronized with upstream.
I think in that case a monthly or quarter counters will be more appropriate.

One may also want to select start and end dates to generate various graphs.

Seeing the download totals for older builds would be useful as well, that way I can get a sense of the changing popularity of the PPA from one release to the next

Something to worry about if you're ranking by "most current package download totals" is what happens immediately after a new binary release before everyone's update manager does its daily query. A formerly very popular PPA would drop to nothing temporarily. So for that reason you might want to look at the maximum of the current version and the previous 3 or so (successfully built) versions

Scott, you can pass getPublishedBinaries a status argument to find the stats for older builds.

May I ask if there is any progress on this bug?

33 People who request this. Maybe this can be implemented asap?

Up to 72 people now.

And now 83 :-)

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113 people now