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February 2013 - The NuGet Blog

Introducing Package Statistics

February 26, 2013 Feb 26, 2013 02/26/13
Jeff Handley
We have introduced a new feature on http://nuget.org where you can see download statistics for packages. With this initial drop, we hope to whet your appetite and collect your input on further statistics features; it's a mere fraction of what we can imagine. Statistics Tab At the top of the site, a new 'Statistics' tab is displayed. This ...

Workflow Changes for CodePlex Issues

February 11, 2013 Feb 11, 2013 02/11/13
Howard Dierking
A couple weeks ago, some of you noticed that the core team closed a few issues on http://nuget.codeplex.com that were in the “Soonish” release. The items that were closed were feature suggestions that, while not bad ideas, were things that the core team decided weren’t going to make the cut for the next few releases. The pushback from ...

Managing Package Owners on nuget.org

February 5, 2013 Feb 5, 2013 02/5/13
Jeff Handley
While each NuGet package's nuspec metadata defines the package's owner(s), the NuGet gallery at nuget.org ignores that piece of nuspec metadata. Instead, ownership of a package is defined by who publishes the package to the gallery. Sometimes this metadata needs to be managed beyond the initial package publishing too, which means the owner ...