From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1QwB1L-0006yZ-Kp for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 24 Aug 2011 10:49:20 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1745121C0F8; Wed, 24 Aug 2011 10:49:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1253221C083 for ; Wed, 24 Aug 2011 10:48:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.2.2] (dslb-084-058-176-005.pools.arcor-ip.net [84.58.176.5]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: patrick) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 29D8A1B400E for ; Wed, 24 Aug 2011 10:48:44 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <4E54D703.9090806@gentoo.org> Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2011 12:48:35 +0200 From: Patrick Lauer User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:5.0) Gecko/20110720 Thunderbird/5.0 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] Gentoostats, SoC 2011 References: <20110822212030.GA8233@felicia> <201108231816.51076.dilfridge@gentoo.org> <20110824103135.GH20891@denkmatte.private.newton.cam.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <20110824103135.GH20891@denkmatte.private.newton.cam.ac.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: b6ff81930e49933c22d9fc07434ca46a On 08/24/11 12:31, Thomas Kahle wrote: > Hi, > > On 18:16 Tue 23 Aug 2011, Andreas K. Huettel wrote: >> there is one important aspect of your program that really needs to be >> documented (and comments in the code are not enough): >> >> What data exactly is the client sending to the server?! >> >> What you need is basically an easy-to-find file / web page / ... where >> this is explained concise and in simple words. As long as that does >> not exist, your program will not find much acceptance. > > > You may look at the files README and FAQ for Ubuntu's popularity > contest: http://popcon.ubuntu.com/ > > If we could get their turnout rates, that'd be great. If you sneakily add something to cron.daily by default you can get pretty nice coverage. But I guess anyone trying that in Gentooland will meet some rather unpleasant resistance :)