Re: Bug#116359: ITP: apron -- An MPEG player running in a text-console
On Oct 20, Jérôme Marant wrote:
> Christian Surchi <csurchi@debian.org> writes:
>
> > On Sat, Oct 20, 2001 at 02:42:18PM +0200, Jérôme Marant wrote:
> > > Sorry, I can easily guess that the number of apron users will not exceed
> > > one or two. This is the kind of usefullness I'm talking about. Tuxracer
> > > is far away from this.
> >
> > Have you ever seen the pages of apenwarr's popularity contest? :)
>
> The Popularity Contest is meaningless unfortunately. It tells what packages
> people have installed on their system, but not those they are really using.
>
> I can tell that I have on my system some applications I just tried once
> but that I did not remove.
Actually, it's pretty meaningful, if you know how to read the results.
Quoting from http://people.debian.org/~apenwarr/popcon/:
Vote: Number of people that use this package regularly.
Old: Number of people who installed but have not used the package recently.
Recent: Upgraded the package too recently for stats to be valid.
Unknown: No files in the package were used in the statistics calculation.
IMHO the most useful packages will have a very high (Vote+Recent)/(Old+.01).
Of course, the results for some packages will be skewed (mainly
popularity-contest and its dependencies), but it's close enough for CD
burning work.
Chris
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