Re: popularity-contest as standard? [Was Re: CVS priority standard?]
On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 10:07:29AM -0500, Alan Shutko wrote:
> Luca - De Whiskey's - De Vitis <luca@debian.org> writes:
>
> > I'd like popularity-contest to be autoritative, so why not making it
> > ``standard''?
>
> It will never be authoritative. Even if everyone were willing to
> participate, many laptop users mount their drives with noatime.
100% participation isn't necessary for the statistics to be meaningful.
Subtract the users who choose not to send the stats back to the popcon page
and the users who are mounting their drives noatime, and I think you'd still
have a statistically meaningful result if popcon were "standard".
Ben
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