Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2007 19:34:40 +0200 From: martinko <gamato@users.sf.net> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Cc: Nils Vogels <nivo+d+1189295488.3fa057@is-root.com>, Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com> Subject: Re: Popularity contest Message-ID: <46ED6930.6000902@users.sf.net> In-Reply-To: <07A14338-B3EB-4C65-9A28-754741740FA5@brooknet.com.au> References: <46D9FACC.80109@is-root.com> <07A14338-B3EB-4C65-9A28-754741740FA5@brooknet.com.au>
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Sam Lawrance wrote: > > On 02/09/2007, at 9:50 AM, Nils Vogels wrote: > >> Since a little while, Debian has been using a popularity contest, that >> sends anonymous usage details of various packages that Debian users have >> installed. >> >> These details are summarized at http://popcon.debian.org/ >> >> I figure something like this would be a huge advantage for the FreeBSD >> ports-community as well, and would like to propose starting something >> like this up for FreeBSD as well (unless I am misinformed, nothing to >> the sort exists at this point), either by porting popcon to FreeBSD, or >> by doing something completely different. >> >> Any thoughts? >> > > I believe http://bsdstats.org/ already collects information on installed > ports (though it doesn't seem to be accessible right now). > > Unfortunately, the site is mostly non-functional at the moment and there seems to be no progress for quite some period. :-(
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