Fight bugs, not FESCo

[Aaron Faanes]

On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 9:09 AM, Bruno Wolff III <bruno at wolff.to> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 01, 2010 at 15:48:15 +0100,
>  Thomas Janssen <thomasj at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
>> On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 3:22 PM, Aaron Faanes <dafrito at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> <snip>
>> > - Allow maintainers to see number of downloads by users who have
>> > opted-in to share that data. If not number, then a simple range.
>> <snap>
>>
>> *That* would be awesome. Because besides of bugs and some guys in IRC
>> who tell you that they like the software you package, you have no
>> feedback if your software is in use at all. Of course speaking of
>> maintainers like me who owns not the big desktops. I have some smaller
>> packages and the E17 chain.
>
> A couple of problems. Which packages are downloaded from mirrors is not
> currently available to Fedora. You'd need a tool that reports what packages
> are installed. Possibly this could be an extension to smolt. It currently
> captures some information related to software, though I don't think it
> gets a package list.
>
> The other, is just because someone downloaded, or even installed a package,
> doesn't mean that are actually using it (in general).

True, but some information is better than no information, in this
case. Right now, putting a bugless package in testing isn't easily
rewarded or acknowledged. At least broken packages get some attention.
;)