On 5/2/07, Marshall Schor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
We're curious to see how many downloads we're getting, perhaps sorted by ip number or who's downloading (I realize that would need be "volunteered" information). Do other projects have a good way to track this? I know we could pull the logs for the p.a.o webserver and grep through them looking for things, but I'm wondering if there's something we can put on our download page that users would click on that would count things?
The mirror system makes this an essentially unsolvable problem. Not to mention the fact that you have no clue if people are actually getting the code from one of our mirrors at all, they could get it from a linux distribution, or any number of other repackagers. On top of that, you can't correlate back to an individual person, so you don't know if you're getting one guy downloading it more than once because he's accidentally deleted it... Get used to the idea that counting downloads is an inherently poor way to judge if your software is being used. More interesting metrics might be numbers of posts on mailing lists, bugs filed, etc. -garrett --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
