I am pleased to announce the release of Recommender API 7.x-6.x for Drupal, whose goal is to enable content recommendations on any Drupal site in order to boost site engagemen
Our research group at the University of Michigan has been working on the "related modules" block for Drupal.org for more than 2 years now. We have published 2 papers on this project so far:
There's a big demand from the Drupal community to add fivestar-like ratings to the contrib modules. This would be a pretty cool feature, but it has other concerns too.
From the experience of developing the "pivots" Drupal module recommendation system, I developed the general purpose Recommender API module. It was released today.
Previously, 'related modules' were generated based on discussions in d.o. forum -- if several modules were mentioned in the same discussion threads, we consider them to be somewhat related.