Fight bugs, not FESCo

[Bruno Wolff III]

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).