Re: Debian Med usage or download stats
Thanks both
J:)
> Hi Jon,
>
> I switched the discussion where it belongs and should be done.
>
> On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 06:45:11PM +0100, Steffen M�ller 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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