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On Wed, 2006-10-18 at 07:55 -0700, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote: |
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> M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote: |
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> > 2. Is there any information about what *Gentoo* users, to be |
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> > distinguished from the overall Linux user base, do with their systems |
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> > that would guide the packages into "themes", such as science, |
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> > multimedia, network security, office, programming languages, web |
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> > applications/servers, etc.? |
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> I just had a thought ... one could, if one were so inclined, extract |
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> some meaningful information about this by data mining the Bugzilla |
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> database. People don't report bugs on stuff they don't use. :) |
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We don't have this sort of access to the database, nor the time to do |
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it. This is why we're asking now. We have enough trouble getting |
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things done due to our limited infrastructure staff. Asking them to |
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turn into data miners is probably a bit much. |
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Chris Gianelloni |
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Release Engineering Strategic Lead |
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Alpha/AMD64/x86 Architecture Teams |
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Games Developer/Council Member/Foundation Trustee |
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Gentoo Foundation |
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