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Number of downloads probably does correlate with criticality. But I don't imagine it does that well.
by anothernewdude 4y ago
Number of downloads probably does correlate with criticality. But I don't imagine it does that well.
- woodruffw 4y agoNumber of downloads correlates strongly with "centrality," i.e. how highly connected (in the dependency graph) a package is to other packages. That, in turn, maps pretty well to "criticality," if your definition of "critical" is "a malicious takeover of this package would compromise large swaths of the Python ecosystem."