# How to know if a package is good?

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**Created:** [June 1, 2022, 11:41am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-know-if-a-package-is-good/82133 "2022-06-01T11:41:34Z")\
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> [@juliohm](#):
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> 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](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/pkg-jl-telemetry-should-be-opt-in/42209):
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> New “[Pkg & Storage protocols](https://github.com/JuliaLang/Pkg.jl/issues/1377)” and an accompanying centralized [service](https://github.com/JuliaPackaging/PkgServer.jl) to host packages have been [merged](https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/commit/e12b054aa02f609037471047d350ffff078c772e) and are present in Julia v1.5.0-rc1. The new Pkg sends telemetry consisting of a [user-specific UUID](https://github.com/JuliaLang/Pkg.jl/pull/1544) 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?”](https://julialang.org/legal/data/) in fundraising. The current protocol is opt-out, meaning that these stats are collected unless a user changes a configuration …

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