From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Sep 16 17:35:13 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA1E916A419 for ; Sun, 16 Sep 2007 17:35:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-ports@m.gmane.org) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6486613C465 for ; Sun, 16 Sep 2007 17:35:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-ports@m.gmane.org) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1IWy1A-0006b5-0U for freebsd-ports@freebsd.org; Sun, 16 Sep 2007 19:34:48 +0200 Received: from r5j156.net.upc.cz ([86.49.9.156]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 16 Sep 2007 19:34:48 +0200 Received: from gamato by r5j156.net.upc.cz with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 16 Sep 2007 19:34:48 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org From: martinko Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2007 19:34:40 +0200 Lines: 26 Message-ID: <46ED6930.6000902@users.sf.net> References: <46D9FACC.80109@is-root.com> <07A14338-B3EB-4C65-9A28-754741740FA5@brooknet.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: r5j156.net.upc.cz User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.8.1.6) Gecko/20070821 SeaMonkey/1.1.4 In-Reply-To: <07A14338-B3EB-4C65-9A28-754741740FA5@brooknet.com.au> Sender: news Cc: Nils Vogels , Mark Linimon Subject: Re: Popularity contest X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2007 17:35:13 -0000 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. :-(