Remove popularity from search index.

app/lib/search/mem_index.dart

@@ -40,7 +40,6 @@ class InMemoryPackageIndex {
   late final List<IndexedPackageHit> _overallOrderedHits;
   late final List<IndexedPackageHit> _createdOrderedHits;
   late final List<IndexedPackageHit> _updatedOrderedHits;
-  late final List<IndexedPackageHit> _popularityOrderedHits;
   late final List<IndexedPackageHit> _downloadsOrderedHits;
   late final List<IndexedPackageHit> _likesOrderedHits;
   late final List<IndexedPackageHit> _pointsOrderedHits;
@@ -116,8 +115,6 @@ class InMemoryPackageIndex {
         score: (doc) => doc.overallScore ?? 0.0);
     _createdOrderedHits = _rankWithComparator(_compareCreated);
     _updatedOrderedHits = _rankWithComparator(_compareUpdated);
-    _popularityOrderedHits = _rankWithComparator(_comparePopularity,
-        score: (doc) => doc.popularityScore ?? 0);
     _downloadsOrderedHits = _rankWithComparator(_compareDownloads,
         score: (doc) => doc.downloadCount.toDouble());
     _likesOrderedHits = _rankWithComparator(_compareLikes,
@@ -271,9 +268,8 @@ class InMemoryPackageIndex {
       case SearchOrder.updated:
         indexedHits = _updatedOrderedHits.whereInScores(packageScores);
         break;
+      // ignore: deprecated_member_use
       case SearchOrder.popularity:
-        indexedHits = _popularityOrderedHits.whereInScores(packageScores);
-        break;
       case SearchOrder.downloads:
         indexedHits = _downloadsOrderedHits.whereInScores(packageScores);
         break;
@@ -315,7 +311,7 @@ class InMemoryPackageIndex {
   /// Update the overall score both on [PackageDocument] and in the [_adjustedOverallScores] map.
   void _updateOverallScores() {
     _adjustedOverallScores = _documents.map((doc) {
-      final downloadScore = doc.downloadScore ?? doc.popularityScore ?? 0.0;
+      final downloadScore = doc.downloadScore ?? 0.0;
       final likeScore = doc.likeScore ?? 0.0;
       final popularity = (downloadScore + likeScore) / 2;
       final points = doc.grantedPoints / math.max(1, doc.maxPoints);
@@ -497,12 +493,6 @@ class InMemoryPackageIndex {
     return _compareUpdated(a, b);
   }
 
-  int _comparePopularity(PackageDocument a, PackageDocument b) {
-    final x = -(a.popularityScore ?? 0.0).compareTo(b.popularityScore ?? 0.0);
-    if (x != 0) return x;
-    return _compareUpdated(a, b);
-  }
-
   int _compareDownloads(PackageDocument a, PackageDocument b) {
     final x = -a.downloadCount.compareTo(b.downloadCount);
     if (x != 0) return x;

app/lib/search/search_service.dart

@@ -83,9 +83,6 @@ class PackageDocument {
   /// The normalized score between [0.0-1.0] (1.0 being the most liked package).
   double? likeScore;
 
-  /// The normalized score between [0.0-1.0] (1.0 being the most popular package).
-  double? popularityScore;
-
   final int grantedPoints;
   final int maxPoints;
 
@@ -114,7 +111,6 @@ class PackageDocument {
     this.downloadScore,
     int? likeCount,
     this.likeScore,
-    this.popularityScore,
     int? grantedPoints,
     int? maxPoints,
     this.dependencies = const {},

app/lib/search/top_packages.dart

@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ class TopPackages {
     query: PackageTags.isFlutterFavorite,
   );
   final _mostPopular =
-      _cachedValue('top-packages-most-popular', order: SearchOrder.popularity);
+      _cachedValue('top-packages-most-popular', order: SearchOrder.downloads);
   final _topDart = _cachedValue('top-packages-top-dart', query: SdkTag.sdkDart);
   final _topFlutter =
       _cachedValue('top-packages-top-flutter', query: SdkTag.sdkFlutter);

app/lib/shared/urls.dart

@@ -219,7 +219,7 @@ String searchUrl({
 }
 
 String listingByPopularity() =>
-    SearchForm(order: SearchOrder.popularity).toSearchLink();
+    SearchForm(order: SearchOrder.downloads).toSearchLink();
 
 String dartSdkMainUrl(String version) {
   final isDev = version.contains('dev');

app/test/frontend/golden/landing_page.html

@@ -176,7 +176,7 @@ <h3>oxygen</h3>
             </div>
           </div>
           <div class="home-block-view-all">
-            <a class="home-block-view-all-link" href="/packages?sort=popularity" rel="nofollow" title="Search popular packages" data-ga-click-event="landing-most-popular-view-all">View all</a>
+            <a class="home-block-view-all-link" href="/packages?sort=downloads" rel="nofollow" title="Search popular packages" data-ga-click-event="landing-most-popular-view-all">View all</a>
           </div>
         </div>
       </div>

app/test/search/mem_index_test.dart

@@ -34,8 +34,8 @@ void main() {
             'runtime:web'
           ],
           likeCount: 10,
-          popularityScore: 0.7,
           downloadScore: 0.7,
+          downloadCount: 70,
           grantedPoints: 110,
           maxPoints: 110,
           dependencies: {'async': 'direct', 'test': 'dev', 'foo': 'transitive'},
@@ -64,8 +64,8 @@ The delegating wrapper classes allow users to easily add functionality on top of
           grantedPoints: 10,
           maxPoints: 110,
           dependencies: {'test': 'dev'},
-          popularityScore: 0.8,
           downloadScore: 0.8,
+          downloadCount: 80,
         ),
         PackageDocument(
           package: 'chrome_net',
@@ -81,6 +81,7 @@ server.dart adds a small, prescriptive server (PicoServer) that can be configure
           grantedPoints: 0,
           maxPoints: 110,
           downloadScore: 0.0,
+          downloadCount: 0,
         ),
       ];
       lastPackageUpdated =
@@ -280,16 +281,16 @@ server.dart adds a small, prescriptive server (PicoServer) that can be configure
       });
     });
 
-    test('order by popularity', () async {
+    test('order by downloads', () async {
       final PackageSearchResult result =
-          index.search(ServiceSearchQuery.parse(order: SearchOrder.popularity));
+          index.search(ServiceSearchQuery.parse(order: SearchOrder.downloads));
       expect(json.decode(json.encode(result)), {
         'timestamp': isNotNull,
         'totalCount': 3,
         'sdkLibraryHits': [],
         'packageHits': [
-          {'package': 'async', 'score': 0.8},
-          {'package': 'http', 'score': 0.7},
+          {'package': 'async', 'score': 80},
+          {'package': 'http', 'score': 70},
           {'package': 'chrome_net', 'score': 0.0},
         ],
       });

app/test/search/result_combiner_test.dart

@@ -23,7 +23,8 @@ void main() {
           readme: 'Many useful string methods like substring.',
           grantedPoints: 110,
           maxPoints: 110,
-          popularityScore: 0.4,
+          downloadScore: 0.4,
+          downloadCount: 4,
         ),
       ],
     );
@@ -78,13 +79,13 @@ void main() {
 
     test('non-text ranking', () async {
       final results = combiner
-          .search(ServiceSearchQuery.parse(order: SearchOrder.popularity));
+          .search(ServiceSearchQuery.parse(order: SearchOrder.downloads));
       expect(json.decode(json.encode(results.toJson())), {
         'timestamp': isNotNull,
         'totalCount': 1,
         'sdkLibraryHits': [],
         'packageHits': [
-          {'package': 'stringutils', 'score': 0.4},
+          {'package': 'stringutils', 'score': 4},
         ],
       });
     });
@@ -97,7 +98,7 @@ void main() {
         'totalCount': 1,
         'sdkLibraryHits': [],
         'packageHits': [
-          {'package': 'stringutils', 'score': closeTo(1.0, 0.01)},
+          {'package': 'stringutils', 'score': closeTo(0.85, 0.01)},
         ],
       });
     });
@@ -124,7 +125,7 @@ void main() {
           },
         ],
         'packageHits': [
-          {'package': 'stringutils', 'score': closeTo(0.73, 0.01)}
+          {'package': 'stringutils', 'score': closeTo(0.67, 0.01)}
         ],
       });
     });

pkg/_pub_shared/lib/search/search_form.dart

@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ int extractPageFromUrlParameters(Map<String, String> queryParameters) {
 
 /// How search results should be ordered.
 enum SearchOrder {
-  /// Search score should be a weighted value of [text], [popularity], [points]
+  /// Search score should be a weighted value of [text], [downloads], [points]
   /// and [like], ordered decreasing.
   top,
 
@@ -50,6 +50,10 @@ enum SearchOrder {
   updated,
 
   /// Search order should be in decreasing popularity score.
+  /// WARNING: The value shouldn't be used anymore.
+  ///
+  /// TODO: remove in a future release.
+  @Deprecated('Popularity is no longer used.')
   popularity,
 
   /// Search order should be in decreasing download counts.