Re: Non-x86 architectures becomes more popular in Debian...
> And for those of you interested in the architecture distribution, here > are the numbers and percentages: I think popcon is a really neat project. I do look every now and then to see when the "unknown" line crosses the "amd64" line :) It's getting close. Keep up the good work,
Re: Non-x86 architectures becomes more popular in Debian...
On 10/17/05, Petter Reinholdtsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > (...) > > > but is there anyone in the project with academic background about > > this subject ? > > None of the current popcon maintainers have statistical background, as > far as I know. > > We were in touch with someone interested in using the data set to make > a recommender system for debian packages this summer, but nothing came > out of this yet. I believe it would be a nice feature to have, > allowing admins to get reports about packages they might find > interesting based on their current set of installed packages. It sounds cool. FYI, i've used popcon data in a small script that aims to be a "apt-cache search" replacement - it can retrieve debtags data too and order the results "by popcon", do you see? It wasn't a blocker but it would be cool if popcon data was available in more script friendly formats. -- Gustavo Franco
Re: Non-x86 architectures becomes more popular in Debian...
Quoting John Hasler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Gustavo Franco writes: > > I think that popcon is a bit underrated in the project. > > Does the installer mention popcon? It installs it..:-) (unfortunately, for various design issues, the sarge installer stopped installing it during its development process and the sarge installer does *not* install it automagically) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Non-x86 architectures becomes more popular in Debian...
Gustavo Franco writes: > I think that popcon is a bit underrated in the project. Does the installer mention popcon? -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Non-x86 architectures becomes more popular in Debian...
[Gustavo Franco] > Have you a TODO list to share with us and are you thinking in ways > to expand the popcon visibility in the short term ? We are two persons maintaining the package (it is on alioth, https://alioth.debian.org/projects/popcon/>), and you should probably use our mailing list to discuss popcon plans. I do not have any short term plans for making it more widely known, except for my random reports of statistics on the mailing lists. For the long term, the debian-installer in etch ask during installation if the machine in question should report to popcon, so I hope that will increase the visibility significantly. Unfortunately, this feature was added after sarge was released, so it is not in sarge. > but is there anyone in the project with academic background about > this subject ? None of the current popcon maintainers have statistical background, as far as I know. We were in touch with someone interested in using the data set to make a recommender system for debian packages this summer, but nothing came out of this yet. I believe it would be a nice feature to have, allowing admins to get reports about packages they might find interesting based on their current set of installed packages. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Non-x86 architectures becomes more popular in Debian...
On 10/17/05, Petter Reinholdtsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm pleased to observe that the non-x86 architectures reporting to > debian popularity-contest have seen a steep increase the last few > days. The steepest climber is armeb, followed by alpha and hppa. It > is great to see that the total count of submitters are up to 7850. > Visit http://popcon.debian.org/> to find all the numbers. > > (...) Hi Petter, I think that popcon is a bit underrated in the project. It's cited here and there all the time in the conferences, MLs and IRC but i don't know many users that have heard or are using the results of it. FYI, i'm a brazilian DD. Have you a TODO list to share with us and are you thinking in ways to expand the popcon visibility in the short term ? Since we're using statistical data it's clear that we don't need to know the results of all the Debian users to prepare detailed reports about package usability (in percent), but is there anyone in the project with academic background about this subject ? I'm just curious, because i'm working in a similar project that's is not related (directly) with software. Thanks, Gustavo Franco - <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Non-x86 architectures becomes more popular in Debian...
I'm pleased to observe that the non-x86 architectures reporting to debian popularity-contest have seen a steep increase the last few days. The steepest climber is armeb, followed by alpha and hppa. It is great to see that the total count of submitters are up to 7850. Visit http://popcon.debian.org/> to find all the numbers. But the architecture distribution is not the most interesting part of the popcon results. The packages used around the globe is the more relevant for our day to day work, and the popcon "score" is used to order the packages on the CDs, to make sure the popular packages end up on the first CDs. Please help us get a better picture of the packages being used by installing the popularity-contest package, and answer yes to participate. And for those of you interested in the architecture distribution, here are the numbers and percentages: #machines Architecture -- 1 0.01% ppc64 2 0.03% kfreebsd-i386 3 0.04% hurd-i386 3 0.04% m68k 4 0.05% s390 8 0.11% arm 10 0.14% mips 10 0.14% mipsel 16 0.22% armeb 28 0.38% ia64 46 0.62% hppa 53 0.72% alpha 88 1.19% sparc 129 1.75% powerpc 361 4.90% amd64 6611 89.66% i386 7373 100.00% total (ignored 477 without arch info) The package in woody do not report architecture info, so the 477 machines are probably running woody or older) (And if you want to announce the existence of popularity-contest to Debian users or other lists, please do so. I prefer to limit my posts to the lists I am on. :) Friendly, -- Petter Reinholdtsen One of the popularity-contest maintainers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
