Greg DeKoenigsberg wrote:
On Thu, 5 Oct 2006, seth vidal wrote:
On Wed, 2006-10-04 at 23:39 -0400, Christopher Blizzard wrote:
seth vidal wrote:
hey guys,
The goal of this tracker is to determine how many folks we have
installing fedora, right?
If we can assume that it is likely that a user will be using
yum/pirut/puplet in a default install then we should be able to gather
the information on how many folks are using it (hence installing fedora)
from the mirrors.fedoraproject.org mirrorlist generating program. It'll
track hits against it and we can then mine those logs for the number of
users w/o obtaining much other information than 'they used
yum/pirut/puplet'.
It also requires nothing of us other than putting a log watcher on
fedoraproject.org.
Does that track unique users or just hits? Hits isn't that interesting.
Unique visitors is.
it's just a url running under apache. It tracks what apache tracks
whenever someone hits a page. So, yes, definitely tracking unique
visitors.
I'm perfectly happy to have a good answer that isn't as politically
charged as putting an image on a web page -- so long as it gets us
comparably useful data.
So let's be clear about what the two scenarios would count:
In the Firefox homepage scenario, we would count every unique IP for
everyone who opens a browser window while connected.
In the Yum mirror tracker scenario, we would count every unique IP for
everyone who ever runs yum and talks to any repo.
Do I understand correctly?
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