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On 19:02 Tue 10 May , Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto wrote: |
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> * lack of statistics |
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> Another issue raised by some developers is the lack of statistics so |
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> we can know how many people use arches and so arch team members can |
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> have any feedback about their work. I agree that numbers are |
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> important, so I'd like to have a way to collect statistics about |
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> Gentoo's usage. I've contacted Sebastian Pipping (sping) about this |
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> because of his smolt project, but haven't heard back from him yet. |
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> Does anyone have any suggestions about this? Does anyone want to work |
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> on this? |
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I've got access to some of our web logs, which gave me an idea. What if |
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we estimate how many installations were successfully completed on each |
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architecture by looking at visits to the last page of the handbook? This |
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won't be a perfect measure for various reasons, but it's better than |
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nothing. |
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Here's one day's worth of visits to part 11 of the install guide, which |
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is the last page with actual content (adding users, cleaning up): |
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190 x86 |
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150 amd64 |
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85 sparc |
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83 ppc |
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82 hppa |
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59 ppc64 |
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54 alpha |
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17 mips |
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11 arm |
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8 ia64 |
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The reason non-x86/amd64 architectures are so close to x86/amd64 is that |
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people using "alternative" archs rarely fail to install. The x86/amd64 |
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numbers start out about 2–3x higher at the beginning of the handbook, |
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but most of them don't complete it. |
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It's tough to know how long an installation sticks around, but that many |
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new installs per day is pretty impressive. |
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Thanks, |
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Donnie |
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Donnie Berkholz |
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Sr. Developer, Gentoo Linux |
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Blog: http://dberkholz.com |
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