[Popcon-developers] The number of popcon.debian.org-submissions is falling

[Jonathan Clarke]

On 20/07/2010 14:41, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> The number of submissions to the Debian popularity-contest collector
> is falling, and has done so for some time now.  This can be easily
> seen on<URL: http://popcon.debian.org/stat/sub-i386.png>.
>
> This is mostly caused by a fall in the number of Lenny installations,
> as can be seen from
> <URL: http://popcon.debian.org/stat/release-1year.png>.
>
> Anyone got any idea how to can get more machines to report to
> popcon.debian.org?  Or can there be some other problem causing the
> fall in the number of submissions?

Speaking of my own experience: I always install it, except on test 
machines where the results would be futile anyway. However, having done 
this for years, I now wonder every time I see the installer question 
whether there's any point, since I never see any feedback.

Maybe making results more visible could improve adoption?

A simple link to http://popcon.debian.org/ in the installer? (or is 
there one already? I don't remember, sorry)

A script to display statistics about one's own system, packages used 
last week, packages not used for >3 months, most used packages, popular 
packages we're not using, etc?

Maybe a simple stats report every week/month/trimester, giving out 
details about most popular new packages, packages "losing popularity", 
top 10, etc? (as an opt-in mailing list, or similar)

Just some ideas :)

Jonathan
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