Re: Do you have popularity-contest set to yes?
On Mon, Jul 11, 2016 at 12:06:24PM +0100, Sascha Steinbiss wrote:
> Hi Andreas,
>
> > when looking at our tasks pages I'm noticing several package with 0
> > installations reportet.
>
> I looked at one of these that looks familiar to me and that I have been
> tracking in my DDPO for quite a while (Artemis), and DDPO shows 16
> installations. Could it be that the tasks pages show the numbers for
> regularly used ('vote') or recently upgraded ('recent') installations
> only? Looking at these numbers for Artemis they indeed are 0.
Yes, I think what we really want to know are the regularly used packages.
> I guess that for bioinformatics packages using these as the visible
> popcon counts on the tasks page might skew the numbers a bit.
> I can imagine that one wouldn't use some of these tools every single day
> (or even regularly)...
I think the votes are sensible since by using the metapackages chances
are good that people install a lot of our packages as dependencies. But
what we really want to know is whether software is used in real life
IMHO.
> (And yes, I have popcon reporting enabled on all my machines :))
Very good.
Kind regards
Andreas.
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