On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 9:09 AM, Bruno Wolff III <bruno@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 01, 2010 at 15:48:15 +0100, > Thomas Janssen <thomasj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 3:22 PM, Aaron Faanes <dafrito@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> <snip> >> > - Allow maintainers to see number of downloads by users who have >> > opted-in to share that data. If not number, then a simple range. >> <snap> >> >> *That* would be awesome. Because besides of bugs and some guys in IRC >> who tell you that they like the software you package, you have no >> feedback if your software is in use at all. Of course speaking of >> maintainers like me who owns not the big desktops. I have some smaller >> packages and the E17 chain. > > A couple of problems. Which packages are downloaded from mirrors is not > currently available to Fedora. You'd need a tool that reports what packages > are installed. Possibly this could be an extension to smolt. It currently > captures some information related to software, though I don't think it > gets a package list. > > The other, is just because someone downloaded, or even installed a package, > doesn't mean that are actually using it (in general). True, but some information is better than no information, in this case. Right now, putting a bugless package in testing isn't easily rewarded or acknowledged. At least broken packages get some attention. ;) -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
