Fight bugs, not FESCo

Eric Sandeen sandeen at redhat.com
Mon Mar 1 16:12:03 UTC 2010


Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 01, 2010 at 03:48:15PM +0100, Thomas Janssen wrote:
>> On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 3:22 PM, Aaron Faanes <dafrito at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I agree to almost everything you 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.
> 
> Debian has a thing called PopCon:
> 
> http://popcon.debian.org/
> 
> Rich.
> 

Could smolts.org collect package data as well?

Might be a little outside the scope of the thing...

-Eric


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