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On 01/25/2016 02:50 AM, Göktürk Yüksek wrote: |
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> Ian Delaney: |
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>> 5. At the risk of sounding like Patrick, gentoo lacks some forms |
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>> of documentation pertaining to established proxy maintainers and to |
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>> forms of stats analysis. In discussions, points were raised |
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>> regarding the gathering of stats data re packages' tally of |
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>> downloads and instances of emerging into a gentoo system. Most of |
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>> the desired stats appear to lack any form of tools available to |
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>> gather and report data that would prove helpful in evaluating |
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>> packages of either the m-w or m-n lists. |
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>> The topic of recruitment and recruiting are tied, but imo, quite |
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>> disparate. |
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> I don't want to go off-topic here too much but this is more than a |
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> missing tools issue. There are privacy concerns regarding the |
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> collection of such information. I recall this proposed idea from |
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> Google Summer of Code: |
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> https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code/2012/Ideas#Package_statistics_reporting_tool |
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This was implemented but never deployed. Data collection would always be |
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optional and off by default. There was even a nice configuration file to |
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select exactly which information is and is not sent. |
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