Create search ranking (GSoC task)

Introduction

Make the software heritage search better by creating a better ranking for results.

Task description

SWH search returns a set of results, but they are not always in proper order. Popular or important projects are often missing on the the first page.

Some criteria for result ranking could be

• Number of revisions in the project
• Number of forks/stars for the project
• Recent activity in the project
• Total number of contributors