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 1QJtz5-0000e5-5U for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 10 May 2011 20:56:47 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8BFF21C019; Tue, 10 May 2011 20:56:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 58FBD1C019 for ; Tue, 10 May 2011 20:56:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from gentoo.org (mayo-nat4.mayo.edu [129.176.197.23]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: dberkholz) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id AF5941B40B8 for ; Tue, 10 May 2011 20:56:14 +0000 (UTC) Date: Tue, 10 May 2011 15:56:12 -0500 From: Donnie Berkholz To: gentoo-project Subject: [gentoo-project] Re: Arch teams Resources (round 2) - General issues Message-ID: <20110510205612.GD30373@comet.mayo.edu> References: <4D73AB04.8050301@gentoo.org> <4DC98BCF.7080403@gentoo.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Project discussion list X-BeenThere: gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="M38YqGLZlgb6RLPS" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4DC98BCF.7080403@gentoo.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 1c276b5591375e3002ab6abd5c25fca7 --M38YqGLZlgb6RLPS Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 19:02 Tue 10 May , Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto wrote: > * lack of statistics >=20 > Another issue raised by some developers is the lack of statistics so=20 > we can know how many people use arches and so arch team members can=20 > have any feedback about their work. I agree that numbers are=20 > important, so I'd like to have a way to collect statistics about=20 > Gentoo's usage. I've contacted Sebastian Pipping (sping) about this=20 > because of his smolt project, but haven't heard back from him yet.=20 > Does anyone have any suggestions about this? Does anyone want to work=20 > on this? I've got access to some of our web logs, which gave me an idea. What if=20 we estimate how many installations were successfully completed on each=20 architecture by looking at visits to the last page of the handbook? This=20 won't be a perfect measure for various reasons, but it's better than=20 nothing. Here's one day's worth of visits to part 11 of the install guide, which=20 is the last page with actual content (adding users, cleaning up): 190 x86 150 amd64 85 sparc 83 ppc 82 hppa 59 ppc64 54 alpha 17 mips 11 arm 8 ia64 The reason non-x86/amd64 architectures are so close to x86/amd64 is that=20 people using "alternative" archs rarely fail to install. The x86/amd64=20 numbers start out about 2=E2=80=933x higher at the beginning of the handboo= k,=20 but most of them don't complete it. It's tough to know how long an installation sticks around, but that many=20 new installs per day is pretty impressive. --=20 Thanks, Donnie Donnie Berkholz Sr. Developer, Gentoo Linux Blog: http://dberkholz.com --M38YqGLZlgb6RLPS Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (GNU/Linux) iEYEABECAAYFAk3JpmwACgkQXVaO67S1rttcwQCgvD3REhuZzTzhVz0e70QHEUJ4 rdMAn2rvSL5Kou5UlXSeuEh55L/0UA+4 =jEPJ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --M38YqGLZlgb6RLPS--