[Soc-coordination] Aptitude search ranking and other improvement

[Christopher Duffin]

Hi Everyone,

I'm a 3rd Year Computer Science student and I'm currently involved in  
a number of system admin positions for open-source projects, which is  
why this particular project has piqued my interest.

Aptitude is an important part of the system and can be both very  
useful and very frustrating. As an extension to the current proposal  
of adding a search ranking to the search results given by aptitude I  
would like to propose the idea of applying a system similar to the  
popularity contest currently used in Debian to help decide what is put  
on the first disk.

While it is nice to see what packages are relevant to what you want to  
do, it would also be fantastic to know what other people are using. ie  
if I was searching for a package to achieve a particular task it is  
quite likely that there will be several candidates, so it would would  
great to know what other people have chosen.

I find this a particularly interesting idea so I would to hear other  
peoples feed back on this proposal.

Regards

Christopher Duffin



e: christopher at duffins.co.uk