Hello, > On Jan 11, 2017, at 20:24, Assaf Gordon <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Jan 11, 2017, at 20:13, Eric Blake <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I don't know if there is any (easy) way to count how many downloads of >> [...] But most likely that's a >> pipe dream, as GNU encourages the use of mirrors for getting tarballs, >> making it harder to centrally track what got downloaded where. > > Actually with the mirrors it's easier: > The mirroring is done through a CGI script on a savannah machine. Once the > transition to the new VMs is complete, I could provide some statistics.
Download statistics for gnu's ftp-mirror: https://download.savannah.gnu.org/ftpmirror-stats/ For example, what is the most often downloaded coreutils version: https://download.savannah.gnu.org/ftpmirror-stats/ftpmirror-stats-packages.html#coreutils Comments welcomed (should be sent to [email protected] ). regards, -assaf
