On Fri, Apr 13, 2007 at 12:21:09AM +0200, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Pe?a wrote: > > Looking at the submission numbers from > > <URL:http://popcon.debian.org/>, I am happy to report that the number > > of Etch installations is increasing fast. > > IMHO there are some ways we could track get some better numbers for that. > > Given the fact that "many" users are using security.debian.org as the default > security mirror, that etch enables it by default (there were some previous > releases that didn't IIRC) and that *we* have control over those servers' > logs we could count the number of downloads of the Packages files from the > official security mirrors [1]. > [...] > [1] Official mirrors could also be used, but getting the logs from the > different admins would be rather difficult.
Actually, it wouldn't be all that difficult. All we have to do is ask. I bet that most people would be happy to send us their logs if we asked them nicely. We already bother them with various other requests, this wouldn't be a major thing for most people. Cc:ing and MFT'ing debian-mirrors for further discussion of this particular aspect. As it happens, the other day I was going about fixing up our own HTTP daemon log analysis for www.debian.org - we had the logs on our machine, but nobody noticed that our webalizer cron jobs died due to an upgrade. My point being, just because it's on project-owned machines that doesn't necessarily mean that we'll do a particularly good job of it :) the other volunteers who don't happen to be official developers but contribute their knowledge as mirror admins could almost as easily help collect this data. -- 2. That which causes joy or happiness. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]