Tracking issue for RFC 1824: Proposal for default crate recommendation ranking

This is a tracking issue for the RFC 1824 (rust-lang/rfcs#1824).

Steps:

• [x] Sort crates by number of downloads in the last 90 days
• [x] Render contents of README on crate pages
• [ ] Have cargo new add a template README and template documentation
• [ ] ~Create a "Well documented" badge for crates in the top 20%~ (crates.io team decided against this)
• [x] Add a badge for crate authors to self-report their maintenance intentions
• [x] Add the ability for crate authors to add isitmaintained.com badges to their crate
• [x] Add the ability for crate authors to add code coverage badges to their crate
• [ ] Have "favorite owners" and highlight crates owned by your favorite owners in crate lists
• [ ] Adjust documentation (see instructions on forge)

1. This is a tracking issue for the RFC 1824 (rust-lang/rfcs#1824).

   Steps:

   • [x] Sort crates by number of downloads in the last 90 days
   • [x] Render contents of README on crate pages
   • [ ] ~Have cargo new add a template README and template documentation~ (Cargo team decided against this)
   • [ ] ~Create a "Well documented" badge for crates in the top 20%~ (crates.io team decided against this)
   • [x] Add a badge for crate authors to self-report their maintenance intentions
   • [x] Add the ability for crate authors to add isitmaintained.com badges to their crate
   • [x] Add the ability for crate authors to add code coverage badges to their crate
   • [ ] Have "favorite owners" and highlight crates owned by your favorite owners in crate lists
   • [ ] Adjust documentation (see instructions on forge)

   Wesley Wiser at 2025-03-07 15:41:40

2. Should this be in rust-lang/rust or rust-lang/crates.io? I was planning on making a bunch of smaller issues in crates.io anyway, I'm fine leaving this open as a larger tracking issue if that makes sense, but I don't think there are any changes to rust-lang/rust to be made....

   Carol (Nichols || Goulding) at 2017-04-29 01:57:37

3. At the moment all RFCs are tracked here, regardless. Setting up a TODO list with links into issues on crates.io should do the trick.

   Aaron Turon at 2017-04-29 02:01:26

4. Hi! I was planning on developing a crate ranker using something similar to a Page Rank algorithm. Would it be useful in any way?

   Blas Rodriguez Irizar at 2017-09-06 21:11:33

5. @blasrodri Hmm, crates.io isn't that big as of yet. Maybe you could outline a case for it in this issue, or otherwise create a new issue here?

   Vignesh Sankaran at 2017-09-08 08:38:43

6. The last comment in the "add a template README" issue suggests that that issue should be closed now that community versions exist. Additionally, I don't see a direct link between that feature and the ranking feature. Would it be appropriate to remove that bullet point?

   Kyle J Strand at 2019-06-17 18:30:26