Hi everyone,

This is the fourth progress report of the `Package statistics`
project[0]. I had been travelling the past week, so coding was a
little slow.

Summary
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The goal of this project is to implement a client-server architecture
for reporting and querying package statistics of Gentoo based machines.
The client program will be used to collect package statistics from
Gentoo installations and submit them to a central server. The server
will calculate useful statistics based on the global dataset, that
developers as well as end users have access to, via an intuitive web
interface.

Past week progress
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* Wrote ebuild for the client
* Auth info for the host is read from a config file now
* Implemented a config file feature for the user to mask reported fields
* Worked on pages for per-package and per-arch stats

Issues
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* Payload compression : The client data sent could be compressed to
  improve post time. This could be done by gzip compression of the
  payload (authentication info should be separated from the payload
  then), or by using a transparent gzip reverse proxy with apache.

* HTTPS : It was suggested to send the data over HTTPS for better
  security. This too, could be implemented using reverse proxies.

Blockers
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* Still blocked on bug 369679[1] to deploy the webapp

Goals for next week(s)
======================
* Work on the above issues
* Continue work on the WebUI
* Write some tests for the client

[0]http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/project/google/gsoc2011/vh4x0r/26001
[1]http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=369679

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Vikraman