On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 3:48 PM, Matt Domsch <matt@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 03:17:41PM +0100, Thomas Janssen wrote: >> This could change if we provide information about >> downloads/installation of packages (thinking on the one mirror in >> Fedoras hands or information submitted once a month (for example) from >> a users box). I would drop a package if nobody uses it (including me). >> But that's just me. > > arguments about statistics/sampling... We have >240 public mirrors > serving >158Gbits of bandwidth), and >300 private mirrors (bandwidth > unknown). Most of those have lots more bandwidth than what > Fedora-owned mirrors can provide. So, if we have a 1 in say 550 > chance of hitting a Fedora-owned mirror if all bandwidth were equal; > we weight based on bandwidth of each mirror, so it's actually going to > be larger than that, likely about 1 in 1500. So at a rough estimate > (modulo user location and available mirrors by country), a package > would need 1500 users for our mirror to serve it up once. We're > complaining that we can't find 3 users of a single package to provide > feedback. > > Sure, we could have a new "quarantine" hunk of the master mirror that > we don't expose to the mirror network as a whole, but only to a > Fedora-owned mirror. How do we decide which packages to put there? > I'm seeing complexity to gather more information, but if the set of > actions at the end of the day remains "it's up to the maintainer to > keep the package in Fedora or not" - I don't see how the added > information and complexity to gather it would help. Right. Sounds quite hard. Looks like we haven't much options. Maybe we can have the "popularity" like thing. But i guess to have the right statistics we would need to implement a "calling home and telling us what's installed" function. That sounds as well a bit bad since it has some "windows-call-home" touch. *sigh* Well, i'm not the smartest out there in the wild. Maybe someone else comes up with something better. -- LG Thomas Dubium sapientiae initium _______________________________________________ advisory-board mailing list advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/advisory-board
