Hi Reg
Unfortunately it does not. It never got that feature added.
It is a point for possible feature to add, but as many people are still
running old versions of the client, it will take quite a long time for
the statistics to get traction.
-Till
On 17.04.21 20:15, Reginald Beardsley via oi-dev wrote:
Does the repository server collect information about installs? It seems
to me it should and package and version support decisions based on that
information. Without that information there is great potential to waste
resources doing work which will never be used.
In the early 90's I was a big advocate for buying binary FOSS packages
as compiling them for multiple platforms was not cheap unless it was
done during idle time while waiting for another job to complete. I
routinely did this on other systems while waiting for a compile and test
to complete on the platforms we supported for our package.
As a practical matter, distribution of builds of FOSS was out of scope.
I just did the 6 platforms which used our NFS server for our convenience
and efficiency. No one asked me to do it. I just did it and everyone was
very pleased that I did.
In order to better manage resource allocation of 3 people, I implemented
a usage logger which collected usage data via UDP from all the business
affiliates in a major oil company for the package we supported. Once a
month I generated plots showing program usage by affiliate and
cumulative usage worldwide. That allowed management to allocate
resources to programs in widespread use and ignore programs only used by
the scientist who wrote it. One individual was *very* noisy. It was
extremely useful to be able to show he was the sole user and had run the
program 1 or 2 times in the last year. As he had written it, he was
quite capable of adding the "important" features himself.
I do not suggest collecting per use data, but per install data seems
entirely sensible.
Reg
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