On Mon, Mar 01, 2010 at 15:48:15 +0100,
Thomas Janssen <thomasj(a)fedoraproject.org> wrote:
On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 3:22 PM, Aaron Faanes
<dafrito(a)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).