On 03/05/2025 02:35, Otto Kekäläinen wrote:
I am also interested in usage statistics. I feel it is much more
meaningful to work on packages that I know how have a lot of users.
+1
While neither popcon of download stats are accurate, they still show
trends and relative numbers which can be used to make useful
conclusions. I would be glad to see if people could share ideas on
what stats we could collect and publish instead of just pointing out
flaws in various stats.
i was disappointed when Ubuntu dropped publishing popcon data.
My understanding is that popcon is set up to report data to an address
that is distro dependent. Do any of our downstreams actually harvest
this info?
Maybe instead the downstream data could come to Debian with the distro
as an attribute? Without factoring in the downstream data, desktop package
usage overall is likely to be understated.
Cheers,
Peter
