Re: [PEAR-DEV] Re: [pear-webmaster] "Popular Packages"

On 2011-10-30 07:19, Alexey Borzov wrote:
>>> Also WTF is File_Mogile? Does it really have 100K downloads a month
>>> or is
>>> this creative approach to foreign key constraints?
>>> http://pear.php.net/package-**stats.php?pid=843&cid=9<http://pear.php.net/package-stats.php?pid=843&cid=9>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I dunno - it's a client for http://danga.com/mogilefs/ ; and obviously
>> there's a lot of people pushing applications into the cloud; plus someone
>> is running off writing a pecl extension too. It's vaguely conceivable
>
> It just looks fishy that this package has around the same number of
> downloads as PEAR installer itself. With *zero* bug reports and feature
> requests throughout its history:
>
> http://pear.php.net/bugs/search.php?cmd=display&package_name[]=File_Mogile&status=All
>
>
> Are these legitimate downloads (even if automated somehow) or DB
> corruption?
>
It's possible that downloading the package from from PEAR is part of 
someone's cloud deployment script. It's not strange to have thousands of 
deployments a month. I blame Digg.

Cheers,
Mike