Re: [gentoo-project] Re: Arch teams Resources (round 2) - General issues

[Pandu Poluan <pandu@poluan.info>]

On 2011-05-15, "Paweł Hajdan, Jr." <phajdan.jr@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On 5/10/11 10:56 PM, Donnie Berkholz wrote:
>> The reason non-x86/amd64 architectures are so close to x86/amd64 is that
>> people using "alternative" archs rarely fail to install. The x86/amd64
>> numbers start out about 2–3x higher at the beginning of the handbook,
>> but most of them don't complete it.
>
> I just thought about a different possible explanation. When I'm setting
> up new chroots or other test installs, I frequently only look up
> information from the first pages of the handbook, like what's the exact
> command to unpack the stage or what's the right order of steps. Setting
> up the logger, cron and so on usually doesn't require referring to the
> handbook.
>

... and there are people like me who prints out the handbook once
every handbook change. I'd use the exact same printout for, let's see,
7-8 installations.

So, my guess is that every 'handbook read' for x86/amd64 might
represent more than one installs.

>> It's tough to know how long an installation sticks around, but that many
>> new installs per day is pretty impressive.
>
> Yeah, and also it looks like the interest in arches like sparc, ppc,
> hppa and so on is much higher than what I expected. That's great!
>
>

IMO, the only way to get a precise number is to have a 'call-home'
script every install. But of course there's this question of ethics
and privacy...

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