[CCing popcon's maintainer] Avery, we're deliberating what should go on the first CD of the next Debian GNU/Hurd set. The differences (due to some packages not being compiled yet, and others being quite linux-specific) to linux-i386 will be greater than for, say, linux-sparc. Philip Charles <philipc@copyleft.co.nz> writes: > I had thought of using the GNU/Linux Popularity contest. Is the user-base > of the Hurd large enough to be of use to us? More importantly: is the number of GNU/Hurd users willing to install popcon high enough? Obviously, the popcon numbers could give us these as well. Unfortunately, popcon has currently no notion of architecture, at least the public statistics don't differentiate by it. The only thing I can see is that (if it's working correctly) no Hurd user has it installed, currently -- the hurd package has no votes. But so have silo, and milo ... The two alternatives I see: * Use a hacked popcon that submits to another address, i.e. generate independent stats for hurd-i386. Effort: minimal * Make stock popcon take architecture into account. I imagine that this could benefit others as well, but not as much as hurd-i386, probably. Effort: depends on whether only the statistics generator had to be modified (because arch is already gathered), or the protocol as well. -- Robbe
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