[Popcon-developers] Bug#462268: popcon: stay out of lenny for a while

[Petter Reinholdtsen]

[Bill Allombert]
> Package: popularity-contest
> Version: 1.43
> Severity: serious
> Justification: in the maintainer opinion.
> 
> I would like to keep popularity-contest out of testing for 
> 1) See how many people use sid versus testing
> 2) give us a chance to address the DOS issue in a better way.

The popcon version graph on <URL:http://popcon.debian.org/> has
flattened out, and the increase for stable (1.41) since version 1.43
was uploaded to unstable is almost the same as the amount of hosts
registered using unstable (~5000).  This make me suspect that the DOS
issue might be the reason we do not see more submissions registered.
On the other hand, the submissions in stable did not increase as the
exact same date as the upload was done to unstable.  This make me more
unsure if the increase is related to the unstable upload or not.

Perhaps it is time to allow version 1.43 into testing, and see if the
amount of stable submissions increases with that amount (~14700)?

Anyone working on a different approach to avoid all clients in a given
time zone contacting the popcon server at the same time?

Happy hacking,
-- 
Petter Reinholdtsen