How to know if a package is good?

[oheil]

@juliohm

So links connecting all these packages would help, it is a community detection problem.

We could bring telemetry back into discussion.

Pkg.jl telemetry should be opt-in

New “Pkg & Storage protocols” and an accompanying centralized service to host packages have been merged and are present in Julia v1.5.0-rc1. The new Pkg sends telemetry consisting of a user-specific UUID and other information to the server, where it is used to count the number of users and other stats. The goal is to answer the question “How many Julia users are there?” in fundraising. The current protocol is opt-out, meaning that these stats are collected unless a user changes a configuration …