packagecontrol / packagecontrol/thecrawl
Show popular packages on the front page
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- Dominant language
- Python
- Stars
- 19
- Forks
- 7
- Avg merge
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- Merged PRs (30d)
- 14
Description
New and recently updated packages are significantly less interesting to the average user than the most popular packages. The front page should have the most popular packages at the top.
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First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Begin at the front-page entry point and trace how packages are fetched and ordered. Determine what existing popularity data can define “most popular,” then update the ordering and verify that popular packages appear first without losing the new and recently updated listings.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- python
- Domain
- web-dev
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Quiet
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 52/100