<div dir="ltr">On my first question, I was essentially looking for a database schema. My goal was to discern whether you were collecting any kind of metadata about the final data you are aggregating and presenting. Generally, answering that question openly may still be of value for people interested in understanding how the data they deliver to popcon is being collected and processed.<div><br></div><div>And no problem, I shall look to solve this problem elsewhere. Keep up the great work!</div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div>Pavan</div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 9:40 AM, Bill Allombert <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ballombe@debian.org" target="_blank">ballombe@debian.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 09:01:55AM -0400, Pavan Gupta wrote:<br>
> Hi popcon team,<br>
><br>
> While I was pouring over debian package information the other day, I<br>
> happened to wonder what packages were increasingly popular clustered around<br>
> some key packages that I had just installed. So, I started pouring over<br>
> published popcon data. It's great data and you all rock for making the<br>
> survey happen, but I couldn't find the level of detail I needed to answer<br>
> my surprisingly complex question. And that started me wondering what the<br>
> actual central data repository popcon uses looks like and whether it<br>
> contained enough detail to write out a few reasonably simple package<br>
> recommendation tools.<br>
<br>
</span>Hello Pavan,<br>
did you read the popcon FAQ ?<br>
(/usr/share/doc/popularity-contest/FAQ.gz)<br>
There are also slides:<br>
<<a href="http://popcon.debian.org/paris2014.pdf" target="_blank">http://popcon.debian.org/paris2014.pdf</a>><br>
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> 1. Is the popcon data collection schema published?<br>
<br>
</span>No idea what that means.<br>
<span class=""><br>
> 2. Does popcon collect anonymized, but linked time-series data?<br>
<br>
</span>Yes, but only the latest report is kept.<br>
<span class=""><br>
> 3. Does popcon maintain the logs that were generated out of the HTTP posts?<br>
<br>
</span>popcon does not. Maybe the Debian sysadmins do.<br>
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> 4. Does popcon maintain the emails received from popcon survey participants?<br>
<br>
</span>No more than 24 hours (for rollback in case of server errors).<br>
<span class=""><br>
> 5. Does popcon publish its server-side code for generating final tabulated<br>
> results?<br>
<br>
</span>Yes, in /usr/share/doc/popularity-contest/.<br>
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> 6. Would it be possible to receive access to the raw popcon data?<br>
<br>
</span>Sorry, this is restricted to Debian developers with an account on<br>
<a href="http://popcon.debian.org" target="_blank">popcon.debian.org</a>.<br>
<span class=""><br>
> And I know this is where the lines blur on privacy. Up front, I should be<br>
> clear that I have no monetary interest in this, I have no interest in<br>
> identifying anybody or any machine, and anything and everything I would<br>
> write would always be MIT licensed -- heck, you can just have it without<br>
> attribution if you'd like it. Maybe most importantly, I'd also be happy to<br>
> allow you to gate the results that come from any tools/analysis/etc that<br>
> might come out of my questions below:<br>
<br>
</span>Sorry, I would not have time to follow through this process.<br>
<br>
Cheers,<br>
<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">--<br>
Bill. <<a href="mailto:ballombe@debian.org">ballombe@debian.org</a>><br>
<br>
Imagine a large red swirl here.<br>
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