Re: [RFC] Suggestion for package ordering

1999-12-29 Thread Fish Smith
>> Is this popularity-contest really necessary. What about a script >> which analyses FTP-servers log-files and counting how often a package >> was downloaded? Running this script on the main mirrors would make >> a reasonable statistic. >I dont think it would. This would only make stats of >how

Re: [RFC] Suggestion for package ordering

1999-12-29 Thread Nick Moffitt
Quoting Andreas Tille: > Is this popularity-contest really necessary. What about a script > which analyses FTP-servers log-files and counting how often a > package was downloaded? Running this script on the main mirrors > would make a reasonable statistic. It doesn't just check downloads

Re: [RFC] Suggestion for package ordering

1999-12-29 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, 29 Dec 1999, Tomasz Wegrzanowski wrote: > I dont think it would. This would only make stats of how often packages > are upgraded. If some package changes 5x more often than other it will > reach much better downloads-count, althru isnt used more often Hmmm, you are right. I was ignoring t

Re: [RFC] Suggestion for package ordering

1999-12-29 Thread Tomasz Wegrzanowski
On Wed, Dec 29, 1999 at 09:25:13AM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: > Is this popularity-contest really necessary. What about a script > which analyses FTP-servers log-files and counting how often a package > was downloaded? Running this script on the main mirrors would make > a reasonable statistic.

Re: [RFC] Suggestion for package ordering

1999-12-29 Thread Andreas Tille
On Sat, 25 Dec 1999, Nick Moffitt wrote: > Quoting Martijn van Oosterhout: > > First, there is a package popularity contest package. This needs to > > be improved to the point where normal people can install it. > > I don't get it. apt-get install popularity-contest and then > asnwering "