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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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