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On Wed, 2011-06-08 at 17:19 +0200, "Paweł Hajdan, Jr." wrote: |
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> In my opinion it's *not* about collecting as much data as possible. I |
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> think it's most important to get the core functionality working really |
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> well, and convincing as large percentage of users as possible to enable |
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> reporting the statistics (to make the results - hopefully - accurately |
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> represent the user base). Please note that in some cases it may mean |
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> collecting _less_ data, or thinking more about the privacy of the users. |
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+1 on this. Taking the extreme, I'd rather see a properly implemented |
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architecture that is installed on >50% of Gentoo system just reporting |
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on the arch, then something that collects a lot more data and is |
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installed on 50 machines. Once the framework is in place and there is |
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user uptake then it is easy to slowly extend the statistics collection |
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and gather more useful data. |
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> For me, as a developer, even a list of packages sorted by popularity |
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> (aka Debian/Ubuntu popcon) would be very useful. |
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That would be useful. |
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> Ah, and maybe files in /etc/portage: package.keywords and so on. It |
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> could be useful to see what people are masking/unmasking, that may be an |
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> indication of stale stabilizations or brokenness hitting the tree. |
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> Anyway, I'd call it an enhancement. |
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I'd rather not see this in the initial gsoc project if that means we'll |
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sacrifice a big rollout. |
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Kind regards, |
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Hans |