Ranking: increase contribution of repo rank #546
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keegancsmith
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Thanks for the quick reviews! |
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CC @varungandhi-src we deployed the fix to sourcegraph.com and your example is looking better:
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The file score includes a "repo rank" signal, which is based on the repository's number of stars. Previously, we were aggressively normalizing the number of stars, which made the repo ranks small and close together. This PR changes the normalization to spread it out better over the full range. This increases its contribution to the score.
This would address a couple complaints we got about ranking. Here's an example where the
llvm/llvm-projectshould be the first result:Now,
llvm/llvm-projectwill have repo rank 15.68, pushing it above the first result with repo rank 0.82.