From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JVaH3-0002iq-Ma for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 01 Mar 2008 22:33:45 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id ED72CE0788; Sat, 1 Mar 2008 22:33:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail1.nippynetworks.com (mail1.nippynetworks.com [87.106.95.71]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF7FFE0788 for ; Sat, 1 Mar 2008 22:33:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (mail1.nippynetworks.com [127.0.0.71]) by mail1.nippynetworks.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 593BD5152C2 for ; Sat, 1 Mar 2008 22:33:43 +0000 (GMT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at nippynetworks.com Received: from mail1.nippynetworks.com ([127.0.0.71]) by localhost (mail1.nippynetworks.com [127.0.0.71]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id tu5vPcY6f8A5 for ; Sat, 1 Mar 2008 22:33:42 +0000 (GMT) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (proxy1.nippynetworks.com [87.106.163.70]) (Authenticated sender: edward@wildgooses.com) by mail1.nippynetworks.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id EDD3C514FAC for ; Sat, 1 Mar 2008 22:33:42 +0000 (GMT) Message-ID: <47C9D9D1.7050105@wildgooses.com> Date: Sat, 01 Mar 2008 22:33:53 +0000 From: Ed W User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (Windows/20080213) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for March References: <20080301103002.A2AE266A22@smtp.gentoo.org> <47C9360A.9080806@gentoo.org> <200803011429.39223.welp@gentoo.org> <47C96B1F.9000805@gentoo.org> <47C99A1B.7020009@gentoo.org> <47C9A4B4.4050703@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <47C9A4B4.4050703@gentoo.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: cb9dfcc8-14c1-43fe-baa0-61fcb14abc8b X-Archives-Hash: 2a0226d839bcebbed02afcfe0f007bd5 At one time there were some apps which reported back "usage" from people's systems and showed package versions in use? Now, whilst this in itself is not an indication of package quality or bug-freeness. Perhaps it would be an interesting datastream to assist in deciding whether to mark a package stable or not? An incremental improvement to such a plan might be to consider how to split the data into high quality devs and testers running stuff stuff, keen users and dev boxes (which might be crashing and are of low quality). Sure it's a fairly low quality data source, but it might give a bit of confidence to take a punt unmasking a package if you can see that others are using it "actively"? Just my 2p Ed W -- gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list