I like to keep up to date about new Julia packages being registered and new releases of existing ones. I used to just “watch” the Github repo for the registry, but it contains a lot of incidental information and these days it is like drinking from a firehose. I of course also follow the announcements category here, but not every package is announced. Is there an alternative mechanism for this? Ideally I would like to be notified about new packages in the registry new versions of existing packages, possibly with a filter for major and minor version bumps

Yes I am thanks. And I consider pkg.julialang.org a useful resource to dive into the weeds for a particular package after selecting a particular package selected from the list of options I generate from searching JuliaObserver.com ; so IMHO pkg.julialang.org is useful Yes ; but substitute for JuliaObserver.com No .

What search capabilities are you missing on pkg.julialang.org?

Wow, Thats a rather a large question @StefanKarpinski , but Ill try. :+1::grin: One example: KWS: QR decomposition pkg julialang org Doesnt show the Relationships / Overview Between the Packages, as in Package fooJK > Used by Package fooLM, fooOP, and fooRS . Also don’t know the count of Stars from the community that the package is useful, bugfree etc. Also don’t see any example code / MWE etc. https://web.archive.org/web/20190530063341/https://juliaobserver.com/ Sure you may be able to dig around for a few hours and rebuild JuliaObserver.com from pkg julialang org ; but why recreate the wheel yourself when you’ve already seen it done better before and can "take it all in with one glance at the JO dashboard " using JuliaObserver.com ?

I have to confess that I never really used JuliaObserver. Since it’s down, I can’t try it now. pkg.julialang.org does include numbers of stars for package, so I’m curious what additional information you’d want there. Showing what other packages a package depends on or is depended on is a pretty clear feature, although I’m somewhat curious what the use case for that is—when do you need to know that? Regarding example code and MWE, is clicking the package tab and seeing the README and docs not sufficient?

What it doesn’t show is a quick summary of which packages have been added or updated - categorized by area. This is where Julia Observer was helpful. IIRC it also showed how many times packages had been downloaded by time period.

[image] js135005: IIRC it also showed how many times packages had been downloaded by time period. How would this be possible? If I understand correctly, GitHub does not share that information with us.

I’m less sure of this last. Perhaps it was some other measure of the interest in various packages.

You can follow only releases of packages on Github now.

Yes — that’s a great feature, but it still doesn’t keep me informed about new registered packages.

Knowing which packages package A depends on, and the reverse, which packages depends on package A, is useful when determining if one wants to depend on A for new packages. E.g., if package A only depends on well maintained packages and many well used packages depend on A, it is somewhat safe to assume that A will be well maintained. If on the other hand, A depends on obscure packages and no packages depend on A, it’s a more risky move to have a dependency on A.

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You could use one of these: New package feeds on Zulip and Slack!

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