[Popcon-developers] Bug#261707: popularity-contest: stats on qa.d.o should include relative (%) figures

[Thibaut VARENE]

Package: popularity-contest
Version: 1.22
Severity: wishlist

Taking a look at the new pages on qa.d.o, i felt a bit lost at the
figures:
In fact, it is great to know how many packages are reportedly installed
out there, but it would help alot to know for instance that the pacakge
is ranked N out of X, or that it represents Y % of the total installed
base, etc...

In other word, some data that would help balancing the raw figures.

The same applies to the stats on popcon.d.o btw.

Last but not least, I concur with the idea raised in #239099, an
integrated SMTP routine (or maybe using some perl lib out there?) would
be nice. Quoting myself on IRC:

<T-Bone> kyle: hehe ;) popcon is installed on every single machine i
own. Though there's one thing i find stupid: the average guy on a
desktop machine will not setup his MTA (usually exim) to talk to the
outside (it's too much a mess), so most of popcon submissions are probably
never caught...
<kyle> T-Bone, unfortunate given how easy it is to st up a bloody
postfix server to do smarthosting
<T-Bone> kyle: yeah, but strap yourself in the boots of Mama Morton, for
a while: she got her Gnome out of the box, uses Thunderbird, and doesn't
even know what smarthosting nor a MTA is...
<T-Bone> and the fact is that Mama Morton's stats are IMHO much more
interesting than us kernel hacker's ones

completing: for she is a "real average user", something we're aiming at,
if I'm right ;)

Apologies for the lengthy report, HTH anyway.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (90, 'unstable')
Architecture: powerpc (ppc)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-rc1
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C

Versions of packages popularity-contest depends on:
ii  debconf                       1.4.29     Debian configuration management sy
ii  dpkg                          1.10.22    Package maintenance system for Deb
ii  exim [mail-transport-agent]   3.36-11    An MTA (Mail Transport Agent)

-- debconf information:
* popularity-contest/participate: true
  popularity-contest/hostid-failed: