On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 04:52:19AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 05:19:20PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > > Bearing in mind: > > * www.debian.org/social_contract says Debian's "priorities are our > > users and free software", > > * popcon.debian.org currently reports 91,523 submissions, > > * popcon.ubuntu.com currently reports 1,493,440 submissions, and > > * that this is something of a trick question, > > What's your estimate of the current number of Debian users? [..] > On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 09:49:47PM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > > Then we can look at the official mirrors logs > > (for distinct IPs regularly downloading package indexes in a given time > > window), and at the same index downloads for security.d.o (which is > > enabled by default and most likely not accessed via mirrors). > > I actually thought I'd done that at some point just for kicks, but I > don't seem to be able to find what the results might have been. (Note > security.d.o resolves to different IPs in different countries these > days;
It gives 1.5 million unique IPs (with only 45k IPv6) over all mirrors behind security.d.o (as of February 2010, only from HTTP logs, some more hits with FTP). > and both those measures are affected by undercounting due to proxies > and overcounting due to dynamic IPs among other things) Integrate a unique ID in the apt user-agent string ? :p -- Simon Paillard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-vote-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100327013314.ga29...@dedibox.ebzao.info