I would find it interesting too. Not only about the usage of my
packages, but it might also be interesting to know what packages are
installed from other repositories (fusion, adobe, skype, remi, ...) .
I think it would help to make decisions about what packages to keep
supporting or include in
2010/5/3 Björn Persson bj...@xn--rombobjrn-67a.se:
Thomas Janssen wrote:
Good question about on or off by default. To make sense it should be
on by default.
NO! Popcon may have its uses, and I actually have it enabled on my Debian
boxes, but it *must* be strictly opt-in. If it were on by
On Mon, May 03, 2010 at 10:03:34PM +0200, Thomas Janssen wrote:
- Helps to decide if a package can be easily removed from Fedora
(upstream dead, no users left, good bye is no problem)
Sounds like another tool to beat maintainers with.
Rich.
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On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 11:43 AM, Richard W.M. Jones rjo...@redhat.com wrote:
On Mon, May 03, 2010 at 10:03:34PM +0200, Thomas Janssen wrote:
- Helps to decide if a package can be easily removed from Fedora
(upstream dead, no users left, good bye is no problem)
Sounds like another tool to beat
Thomas Janssen wrote:
Well, i wouldn't call a software that counts serverside downloads of
FOSS software and gives based on that downloads/installations, a
popularity suggestion in packagekit, spyware.
There's nothing at all that gets sent out of your box.
Remind, i'm not speaking of
2010/5/4 Björn Persson bj...@xn--rombobjrn-67a.se:
Thomas Janssen wrote:
Well, i wouldn't call a software that counts serverside downloads of
FOSS software and gives based on that downloads/installations, a
popularity suggestion in packagekit, spyware.
There's nothing at all that gets sent
2010/5/4 Björn Persson bj...@xn--rombobjrn-67a.se
Thomas Janssen wrote:
Well, i wouldn't call a software that counts serverside downloads of
FOSS software and gives based on that downloads/installations, a
popularity suggestion in packagekit, spyware.
There's nothing at all that gets
On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 9:25 PM, devzero2000 pinto.e...@gmail.com wrote:
2010/5/4 Björn Persson bj...@xn--rombobjrn-67a.se
Thomas Janssen wrote:
Well, i wouldn't call a software that counts serverside downloads of
FOSS software and gives based on that downloads/installations, a
popularity
On Sun, 2 May 2010 17:25:10 +0200
yersinia yersinia.spi...@gmail.com wrote:
Would be interesting to have in Fedora something like this
http://popcon.debian.org/
?
Look interesting from a QA point of view.
It's been suggested many times before, but no one has really stepped
forward to
It's been suggested many times before, but no one has really stepped
forward to champion it. ;)
There is an rpm version being worked on by an OpenSUSE person:
http://gitorious.org/opensuse/popcorn
Something would need to be packaged, tested, etc.
Then the problem becomes what data to
On Mon, 2010-05-03 at 19:20 +0100, Athmane Madjoudj wrote:
It's been suggested many times before, but no one has really stepped
forward to champion it. ;)
There is an rpm version being worked on by an OpenSUSE person:
http://gitorious.org/opensuse/popcorn
Something would need to
Am Montag, den 03.05.2010, 11:52 -0600 schrieb Kevin Fenzi:
On Sun, 2 May 2010 17:25:10 +0200
yersinia yersinia.spi...@gmail.com wrote:
Would be interesting to have in Fedora something like this
http://popcon.debian.org/
?
Look interesting from a QA point of view.
It's been
On Sun, May 2, 2010 at 7:25 AM, yersinia yersinia.spi...@gmail.com wrote:
Look interesting from a QA point of view.
How exactly is this interesting from a QA pov in Fedora? Smolt
profiles I can understand being useful for QA because it gives us some
ability to look for commonalities when
On 2010-05-03 09:25:06 PM, Thomas Spura wrote:
Wouldn't it be easier to let MirrorManager do that?
This way each mirror can save a counter per package and publish them
statically on the server side. To get a total amount of the data, all
counter files from all servers needs to be collected and
On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 9:27 PM, Jeff Spaleta jspal...@gmail.com wrote:
On Sun, May 2, 2010 at 7:25 AM, yersinia yersinia.spi...@gmail.com
wrote:
Look interesting from a QA point of view.
How exactly is this interesting from a QA pov in Fedora? Smolt
profiles I can understand being useful
On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 12:03 PM, Thomas Janssen
thom...@fedoraproject.org wrote:
- Superb information for us packagers if and how much (of course not
the correct value) users use the software i package
It may or may not be superb information...but you haven't told me how
collecting this
On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 12:19 PM, yersinia yersinia.spi...@gmail.com wrote:
Sure, I can try. If one software is used many time from many user, directly
or indirectly, and it have not such many problems (e.g bug open on bugzilla
for example ), well this could guide to the decision of the
On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 10:21 PM, Jeff Spaleta jspal...@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 12:03 PM, Thomas Janssen
thom...@fedoraproject.org wrote:
- Superb information for us packagers if and how much (of course not
the correct value) users use the software i package
It may or may not
On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 1:06 PM, Thomas Janssen
thom...@fedoraproject.org wrote:
To make sense it should be on by default.
Good luck with that. I strongly suggest that any usage which only
makes sense with on by default is not a usage you can rely on as a
strawman.
The popularity application
Am Montag, den 03.05.2010, 23:30 +0200 schrieb Björn Persson:
Thomas Janssen wrote:
Good question about on or off by default. To make sense it should be
on by default.
NO! Popcon may have its uses, and I actually have it enabled on my Debian
boxes, but it *must* be strictly opt-in. If it
On Mon, 2010-05-03 at 13:32 -0800, Jeff Spaleta wrote:
The popularity application idea would be a compelling user
benefit..but popcon as constructed really doesn't integrate well
enough to give users useful popular application suggestions in a way
that makes sense. We'd need something that
Thomas Spura wrote:
I don't think it's spyware, if it's enabled by default on the server
side, do you? e.g. sourceforge does the same with their statistics
counter (or any other web counter online).
No, extracting download statistics from web server logs isn't spyware. Spyware
is software
Would be interesting to have in Fedora something like this
http://popcon.debian.org/
?
Look interesting from a QA point of view.
Regards
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