Fight bugs, not FESCo

Richard W.M. Jones rjones at redhat.com
Mon Mar 1 15:59:31 UTC 2010


On Mon, Mar 01, 2010 at 03:57:11PM +0000, 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/

This might be a better link to see the sort of stats they are
generating:

http://popcon.debian.org/by_inst

Rich.

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