On Mon, 1 Mar 2010, Eric Sandeen wrote:
Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 01, 2010 at 03:48:15PM +0100, Thomas Janssen wrote:
>> On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 3:22 PM, Aaron Faanes <dafrito(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I agree to almost everything you wrote.
>>
>> <snip>
>>> - Allow maintainers to see number of downloads by users who have
>>> opted-in to share that data. If not number, then a simple range.
>> <snap>
>>
>> *That* would be awesome. Because besides of bugs and some guys in IRC
>> who tell you that they like the software you package, you have no
>> feedback if your software is in use at all. Of course speaking of
>> maintainers like me who owns not the big desktops. I have some smaller
>> packages and the E17 chain.
>
> Debian has a thing called PopCon:
>
>
http://popcon.debian.org/
>
> Rich.
>
Could
smolts.org collect package data as well?
Might be a little outside the scope of the thing...
People ask this all the time and I said no to everyone except one
developer who finally I guess gave up and didn't do it.
It looks like popcon has like 93000 profiles? Smolt has 1.8 million [1]
and even at that level without package data we have horrible performance
issues. If I were to add packages with my knowledge of db's, smolt would
become useless within a month because the thing would be completely
unavailable.
If someone *really* wants to do this and knows more about databases then I
do, I'll help them through it. It's a high bar though and not to be taken
lightly.
-Mike
[1] Yes I know the stats say 765,000 right now. I was in the middle of a
multi-day db upgrade that took several days longer then I thought and got
caught in our infra freeze for the alpha... It'll be corrected after the
alpha ships :)