On Sat, Mar 23, 2019 at 7:58 PM Craig Treleaven <ctrelea...@macports.org> wrote:
> See: > > http://stats.macports.neverpanic.de/os_statistics#os_platform > > It says all 239 reported platforms are Darwin. So this appears to be the > conglomeration of all reporting over the past several years. This explains > why the charts for OS X Version and MacPorts Version contain so many old > versions. All versions ever reported are being added together--which is > useless. > Does this imply that the current system is reporting all os x/ macports versions a unique user ever had? > Note that the port ‘mpstats’ must be installed in order to report. Thus, > it MUST be the “top port” for the month, every month. Not helpful > information. > Also, since we will be already reporting the number of users who are submitting reports, it does not make sense to include mpstats in the top installations table. > The top list includes items like libffi, gettext and expat. Generally, > these are installed as dependencies of over things that users have actually > chosen to install. However, we don’t capture whether a user “Requested” a > port or not. I would really be interested in a list of top Requested ports. > mpstats reports whether a port was requested or not, so it would be easy to display stats for only requested ports. I think good installation stats could help us understand our users and how > they are using MacPorts. I can’t recall if we ever had a design document > that identified the sorts of information we wanted to capture and report. > I will try to come up with an initial design of how and what can be reported and then we could brainstorm to reach somewhere. Thank You
