Fwd: Call for designers for our ports website

[Craig Treleaven]

Sorry, intended to send this to the dev list...

> Begin forwarded message:
> 
> From: Craig Treleaven <ctreleaven at macports.org>
> Subject: Re: Call for designers for our ports website
> Date: June 12, 2020 at 2:31:52 PM EDT
> To: Mojca Miklavec <mojca at macports.org>
> 
>> On Jun 12, 2020, at 1:24 PM, Mojca Miklavec <mojca at macports.org> wrote:
>> 
>> Dear MacPorters,
>> 
>> As part of a GSOC project Arjun has been working on great new features
>> for our web application with information about ports.
>> 
>> The application from last year has been deployed at
>>   https://ports.macports.org/
>> while the new testing site is temporarily located at
>>   http://macports.silentfox.tech/
>> 
>> The website already looks nice, but if we had some talented designers
>> among our users willing to help us go one step beyond what we have
>> right now, we would be extremely grateful for either just some advice
>> or potentially some more extensive help. There are a lot of minor
>> tweaks that could be done, but neither of us is a designer, and I'm
>> not able to give any competent advice about how to best improve the
>> layout.
>> 
>> Here are some concrete examples of subpages:
>> - http://macports.silentfox.tech/port/root6/
>> - http://macports.silentfox.tech/port/gnuplot/stats/?days=365&days_ago=0
>> - http://macports.silentfox.tech/search/?installed_file=&q=root&name=on
>> 
>> Thank you very much in advance,
>>   Mojca
> 
> Not a designer, but…
> 
> Re "Port Installations by month" [1]
> 
> In the example referenced above, a new version of gnuplot was apparently made available in March 2020.  At first glance, the chart used makes it look like the number of installations of this port jumped up from about 82 in Feb. 2020 to 130 in March 2020; falling back in April 2020 to about 110.  This, however, is a distortion introduced by our weekly submissions being summarized into monthly buckets.  I believe we should be reporting the _percentage_ of installations by version rather than the raw numbers.  Using this example, about 94% of reporting systems were on version 5.2.7 in Feb. 2020.  In March, 69% of submissions identified version 5.2.7 and 27% version 5.2.8.  In April 2020, the submissions reporting version 5.2.7 was down to 36% and 5.2.8 was up to 59%.  I believe this more clearly communicates the degree to which reporters have updated to the most-recently released version.
> 
> If we want to show the number of installations by month irrespective of version (and I think that is useful information), we should use the current version of the chart “Installations by month” [2]
> 
> 
> [1] http://macports.silentfox.tech/port/gnuplot/stats/?days=365&days_ago=0
> [2] https://ports.macports.org/port/gnuplot/stats?days=365&days_ago=0
> 
> 
> Craig
>