[wp-hackers] Reviews for Plugins

[Ryan Frankel]

Mike,
  I also forgot to mention that by default the API returns the recently updated plugins.  You could do a query for say X number of recent and new plugins every Y minutes and be pretty sure you have overlap and keep everything up-to-date.  Then you only have to dump all of the data a single time.  There is probably a better way to do this but right now that isn't a big deal to me.

  Now that I have all of the data I think I am going to put some thought into what a good rating system will be.  Maybe if I can get something setup that mimics the functionality that an integrated wp.org would a discussion can occur whether it would be useful or not.  I would think I can now have something for everybody to take a look at in a few days if anyone cares lol.

 Ryan

On Nov 2, 2011, at 4:15 AM, Mike Bijon wrote:

> The plugin API doesn't have much available info, and it needs enhancements
> or you'll need to spider the whole thing to know what changes. Here's a
> sample echo-to-screen implementation to sniff around with:
> https://gist.github.com/1332406
> 
> As for building a better plugin rating system, someone mentioned DSP's.
> They're usually slow (and worse in PHP), but worth trying if we can get
> data to work with.
> 
> Does anyone on the core team (dd32 since he built this API?) know if the
> votes could be anonymized & exported? We'd really just need to plugin ID,
> vote score, and date -- totally anon.
> 
> -Mike
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