Re: Debian Med usage or download stats
Hi Jon,
I switched the discussion where it belongs and should be done.
On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 06:45:11PM +0100, Steffen Möller wrote:
> Am 17/11/15 um 17:50 schrieb jison@cbs.dtu.dk:
> > Quick question. Do you have any stats on the number of downloads,
> installations or whatever of Debian Med? Anything I can
> > use as ammo to show what a great / widely used thing it is?
> We have the number of contributors to the Debian Med packaging repository at
> https://alioth.debian.org/projects/debian-med
> which now is at 193 (admittingly there come a few folks to mind that we
> can possibly remove).
Thats a total fake number. At least a hand full of people did never a
single commit - cleaning up this list would be urgently needed. I'll
probably do so by comparing the list of people who ever contributed and
kick everybody else.
> And then there is the popularity contest that folks can optionally
> install to have their package installations counted. You may check out
> some common bioinformatics tools like
> https://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=t-coffee
> and extrapolate from there.
Our tasks pages show the *real* user number who regularly use a package
AND have enabled popcon data submission. Have a look at the "Popcon"
field on top right of for instance this entry:
http://blends.debian.org/med/tasks/bio#emboss
Emboss seems to be the most frequently used package maintained by the
Debian Med team. We have no number of those users who are disabling
popcon and also no numbers who are using derivatives like Ubuntu or
BioLinux. So the numbers listed at the tasks page are *minimum* numbers
that might be significantly higher but we can not know.
> Andreas has some extra metrics that he kindly annually gathers for
> Debian Med and all the other Debian blends (a concept he pioneered),
> also to demonstrate the effect that the sprints have on our community.
> Andreas?
Steffen is probably refering to these graphics
http://blends.debian.org/med/maintstats/
However, these stats are rather demonstrating the dynamics of
development and do not say anything about the usage.
Kind regards
Andreas.
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