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Date:      Sun, 2 Sep 2007 11:36:12 +1000
From:      Sam Lawrance <boris@brooknet.com.au>
To:        Nils Vogels <nivo+d+1189295488.3fa057@is-root.com>
Cc:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Popularity contest
Message-ID:  <07A14338-B3EB-4C65-9A28-754741740FA5@brooknet.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <46D9FACC.80109@is-root.com>
References:  <46D9FACC.80109@is-root.com>

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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).





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