Would it be feasible for someone to create something like popcon that
instead reported hardware statistics, and would also be integrated the
installer? There is response bias inherent in such a survey, and a tool
like this would provide continually updated statistics.
On 9/18/25 1:19 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
On Thu, 2025-09-18 at 13:13 -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
On Thu, Sep 18, 2025 at 11:29 AM John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
<[email protected]> wrote:
since we were recently discussing what baseline to use for the powerpc and
ppc64 ports,
I was wondering whether we should start a survey on Google Docs or similar to
find out
what type of hardware people are using these ports on.
Does anyone have a suggestion what platform to use for the survey?
Related, I think Debian includes a Popularity Contest software; see
<https://popcon.debian.org/>. Maybe popcon will reveal some useful
statistics.
On the downside, I think it is disabled by default.
popcon.debian.org doesn't disclose the actual hardware which is what we need
to determine the optimum baseline for the powerpc and ppc64 ports.
Adrian
