“Suggestions are welcome for how to get some data for you all while doing our best to stick with a ‘ co-opetition‘ mindset.”Ĭo-opetition is a term coined to meld the concepts of cooperation and competition to create a system where different vendors cooperate for the benefit of the system while still competing.
“The data shared is always a bit obfuscated so that it’s harder to ‘game the system’-the same reason we don’t have running leaderboards for contributions,” Haden-Chomphosy said.
WordPress Executive Director Josepha Haden-Chomphosy joined the discussion in the channel but had very little information to offer about why this change was made without any public discussion. Zach Tirrell, product manager at Liquid Web, said, “We get very limited metrics from the plugin directory and this one was very important to plugin authors.” In an ideal world this commit should be rolled back pending community discussion.” “I want to echo disappointed in that chart being removed,” Equalize Digital CEO Amber Hinds said. Feedback from plugin developers indicates this was an unpopular decision and a failure of communication. Plugin developers were left to speculate on the reasons for the removal and took to the #meta Slack channel in search of more information. “These graphs at least give us an idea of the performance of a plugin before and after we make certain changes, helping us get a better idea of how helpful they are for WordPress users.” “These stats are actually very useful for plugin developers and it’s really and truly one of the only indications of the growth or decline of a plugin over time,” Zahra said. In a ticket titled “ Bring back the active install growth chart,” RebelCode CEO Mark Zahra contends that this data is useful for gaining a long-term perspective on a plugin’s changes in installs. “Insufficient data obfuscation” is the cryptic reason cited for the charts’ removal, but the decision-making process was not transparent. Over the weekend, meta contributors removed the active install growth charts for plugins, a key metric that many developers and a handful of services rely on for tracking.
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