On Mon, 2007-02-19 at 20:00 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > Hi > > > When we announced the FC6 statistics milestone of a million users, it > was described as the amount of downloads in many places. This widespread > confusion even internally in Red Hat is probably many software projects > like say Firefox usually advertise their download rates. One way to > avoid this is provide both download and user estimates except that we > dont really have download numbers. > > We could ask each of the mirrors to send us the data but that is a bit > tedious and mirrors might not participate. A better way might be a > mirror list designed to allow us to keep tab of the downloads. sf.net > for example has a web page that is not a static list of mirrors but a > web page with a round robin system. We could do something like that or > geo ip based page which suggests the mirrors near to them. I dont think > we would be able to know partial downloads with this but it allows us a > more accurate estimate of much of these downloads actually translate > into users. Comments? those web page things work not at all with automatic downloading tools. For example: yum. how about we continue with what Matt Domsch has been working on and we evolve the set of data we have. -sv
