[Popcon-developers] Traces for P2P pub/sub project
Petter Reinholdtsen
pere at hungry.com
Mon Jun 15 08:29:14 UTC 2009
[Spyros Voulgaris]
> Dear PopCon developers,
>
> I am an assistant professor in CS at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam,
> and I am running a research project with a student on a P2P pub/sub
> system targeted at linux package maintenance. The goal is to form a P2P
> network that will disseminate package updates to _all_ users that have
> the corresponding packages installed and _only_ them. This would
> substantially offload the servers, and would provide for an autonomous
> dissemination framework in place of a hardcoded set of mirrors.
>
> In this context, I would like to ask you if we could get hold of your
> raw, pre-aggregated traces. That is, the listing of installed packages
> explicitly listed _per_ _user_. Of course, any personal information you
> may be collecting (user name, IP, etc.) can be anonymized, we just need
> an arbitrary user ID. In fact, package names can also be anonymized if
> necessary, although we would prefer not.
>
> This would allow us to perform simulations on clustering users based
> on packages they have (particularly the least popular ones), so that
> package updates can be propagated in targeted groups. Of course we will
> keep you up to date for any findings, and if this strives we would be
> more than happy to see it incorporated in the Ubuntu package management
> system!
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Spyros Voulgaris
I believe this is best discussed on the popcon developers list,
popcon-developers at lists.alioth.debian.org.
The raw data is available for all Debian Developers at the moment, and
I am not sure we want to increase the availability. We could provide
sanitized lists of packages (only the official packages in the
archive), which has been done in the past, but I would like to hear
the opinions from the other maintainers before looking into that.
Happy hacking,
--
Petter Reinholdtsen
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