Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on January 30, 2007 03:02 PM
Debian has a package called popularity-contest for measuring this kind of thing. It currently shows about 26,700 submissions, which seems quite low.
Some reasons why the number is not higher include: - popularity-contest has not yet been included in the default install of a stable release; and - The default option when prompted whether to use popularity-contest is to disable it.
Popularity-contest's purpose seems to be more about knowing which packages are popular, rather than how many users/installations there are. In that case, if only 10% of users enable the package the data are still meaningful. For a total number of installations, all it provides is a minimum bound with no clear indication of how many installations there really are.
Stats available from <a href="http://popcon.debian.org/" title="debian.org">http://popcon.debian.org/</a debian.org>
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on January 30, 2007 03:02 PMSome reasons why the number is not higher include:
- popularity-contest has not yet been included in the default install of a stable release; and
- The default option when prompted whether to use popularity-contest is to disable it.
Popularity-contest's purpose seems to be more about knowing which packages are popular, rather than how many users/installations there are. In that case, if only 10% of users enable the package the data are still meaningful. For a total number of installations, all it provides is a minimum bound with no clear indication of how many installations there really are.
Stats available from <a href="http://popcon.debian.org/" title="debian.org">http://popcon.debian.org/</a debian.org>
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