Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Thomas Kahle <tomka@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoostats, SoC 2011
Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2011 11:15:41
Message-Id: 20110824111322.GD19785@denkmatte.private.newton.cam.ac.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoostats, SoC 2011 by Patrick Lauer
1 On 12:48 Wed 24 Aug 2011, Patrick Lauer wrote:
2 > On 08/24/11 12:31, Thomas Kahle wrote:
3 > > Hi,
4 > >
5 > > On 18:16 Tue 23 Aug 2011, Andreas K. Huettel wrote:
6 > >> there is one important aspect of your program that really needs to be
7 > >> documented (and comments in the code are not enough):
8 > >>
9 > >> What data exactly is the client sending to the server?!
10 > >>
11 > >> What you need is basically an easy-to-find file / web page / ... where
12 > >> this is explained concise and in simple words. As long as that does
13 > >> not exist, your program will not find much acceptance.
14 > >
15 > >
16 > > You may look at the files README and FAQ for Ubuntu's popularity
17 > > contest: http://popcon.ubuntu.com/
18 > >
19 > > If we could get their turnout rates, that'd be great.
20 >
21 > If you sneakily add something to cron.daily by default you can get
22 > pretty nice coverage. But I guess anyone trying that in Gentooland will
23 > meet some rather unpleasant resistance :)
24
25 Oh yeah... when I used Ubuntu last 11/06 it would still ask you on
26 install.
27
28 @Vikraman: I guess you see how *important* it is to be completely open
29 and explain everything the program does. On Gentoo it should of course
30 be opt-in, instead of opt-out.
31
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33 --
34 Thomas Kahle
35 http://dev.gentoo.org/~tomka/

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