R P Herrold wrote:
On Thu, 30 Oct 2008, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
source: http://distrowatch.com/
Try finding something more relevant than the number of people clicking
a particular distrowatch page everyday.
Keep your venom -- I decline to ingest it. It is easy to cast stones,
but the point remains that there are tangible numbers, and that the 'one
hand' argument is bunk.
Distrowatch page hits are not useful at all to gather general metrics.
Telling you that requires ingesting no venom. Just accepting facts.
I offered the best metric I know of, one which requires sustained effort
to rig, and (having provided both the lead site's hosting for a while,
and also a mirror), I know a bit about how such 'padding' is detectable
with the code then used.
Find a better metric yourself, and tell us all.
Oh, we already did for Fedora.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/Metrics
http://smolts.org/
OpenSUSE is adopting is. EPEL includes packages for EL. Ask your
favourite distribution to include it as well.
Also
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Statistics
#1 thing to understand: There is no precise numbers anywhere and nothing
even close to "good enough" as a universal solution to that problem yet.
Rahul
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