Activity Dashboard to give insights into plugin quality

[neuromusic]

Summary

We plan to surface metrics on the activity related to usage and support of plugins on an “Activity Dashboard” for each plugin on the napari hub so that users can gain insight into the Quality of a plugin as evidenced through these metrics.

Outcome

Users will be able to gain insight into the quality of napari plugins better understanding how plugins are used and supported.

How it will work

We will aggregate metrics from public sources, such as PyPI, Github, and image.sc, and display certain metrics on plugin listings under an "Activity" section. Where relevant, we will also surface prioritized metrics in other parts of the napari hub, such as plugin cards, sort and filter, or the revised landing page (e.g. a “trending” section)

Assets

• PRD

Tasks

Frontend

• Display PyPI downloads for plugins #586

Backend

• Prototype backend ETL & API for PyPI downloads #638

Stories

Plugin Page Experience

• P0: [Activity dashboard] Pull PyPI downloads data nightly  #664
• P0: Filter plugin installs data #685
• P0: Add tabbed navigation #698
• P0: “Usage” section: Total installs #699
• P0: “Usage“ section: Installs in last 30 days #700
• P0: “Usage” section: Timeseries of last year of installs #701
• P2: Add estimate of current month in the timeseries plot #704
• P2: Redesign "Learn more" grey box area on plugin pages #715 (<-- added by Lia)

Search Page Experience

• P1: Add total installs metric to plugin card #706
• P1: Addition of “Total installs” to sort options #707
• P1: Updated copy per UXR recs #705

[haesleinhuepf]

Consider adding condastats as data source as well. The picture drawn from conda download statistics and pypistats is not 100% consistent -> scientifically very interesting ;-)

See also

• https://github.com/haesleinhuepf/napari-pypistats/blob/main/conda_download_stats.ipynb

[neuromusic]

thanks @haesleinhuepf !! that's a great callout. tracking it here: #805