Archive: March 2020
The mysterious case of the unexplained downloads spike
For several months, daily downloads have been fairly constant, and have shown slow and steady growth. Throughout January and the end of February, the minimum was 23,383 and the maximum was 38,139. The highest ever was 39,153. All of a sudden, on 4 March, we got 56, 225 downloads, up 48% on the...
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piwheels is an automated system which attempts to build every version of every package on PyPI on all supported Raspbian versions (Jessie, Stretch and Buster). There's a whole codebase and database to manage this process and it works really well. Maintaining this is a reasonable job in itself, but...