From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A7B7458973 for ; Sun, 24 Jan 2016 16:02:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8525B21C05A; Sun, 24 Jan 2016 16:02:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from plane.gmane.org (plane.gmane.org [80.91.229.3]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A1C9E21C01E for ; Sun, 24 Jan 2016 16:02:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1aNN7Z-000297-Sp for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Sun, 24 Jan 2016 17:02:34 +0100 Received: from ppp118-209-65-208.lns20.mel4.internode.on.net ([118.209.65.208]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 24 Jan 2016 17:02:33 +0100 Received: from kensington by ppp118-209-65-208.lns20.mel4.internode.on.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 24 Jan 2016 17:02:33 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org From: Michael Palimaka Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFD] Adopt-a-package, proxy-maintenance, and other musings Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2016 03:02:18 +1100 Message-ID: References: <569DCD51.6000501@gentoo.org> <20160123111257.GE6302@ultrachro.me> <20160124223102.183d0e5d@archtester.homenetwork> <56A4F2D6.8050105@binghamton.edu> 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: ppp118-209-65-208.lns20.mel4.internode.on.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.5.0 In-Reply-To: <56A4F2D6.8050105@binghamton.edu> X-Archives-Salt: 06d7e6f6-8690-412a-9390-657249b14e1a X-Archives-Hash: 4ec128d1c67b1a24fa3fb7a3e4baa4be On 01/25/2016 02:50 AM, Göktürk Yüksek wrote: > Ian Delaney: > >> 5. At the risk of sounding like Patrick, gentoo lacks some forms >> of documentation pertaining to established proxy maintainers and to >> forms of stats analysis. In discussions, points were raised >> regarding the gathering of stats data re packages' tally of >> downloads and instances of emerging into a gentoo system. Most of >> the desired stats appear to lack any form of tools available to >> gather and report data that would prove helpful in evaluating >> packages of either the m-w or m-n lists. > >> The topic of recruitment and recruiting are tied, but imo, quite >> disparate. > > > I don't want to go off-topic here too much but this is more than a > missing tools issue. There are privacy concerns regarding the > collection of such information. I recall this proposed idea from > Google Summer of Code: > > https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code/2012/Ideas#Package_statistics_reporting_tool > This was implemented but never deployed. Data collection would always be optional and off by default. There was even a nice configuration file to select exactly which information is and is not sent.