Bug#1115619: popularity-contest should collect underlying hardware information
On Thu, Sep 18, 2025 at 04:05:58PM -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 18, 2025 at 3:14 PM Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, Sep 18, 2025 at 02:50:56PM -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
> > > Popularity Contest is used to collect information on packages
> > > installed by users. However, there is currently a need to determine
> > > whether a particular architecture should be supported, but
> > > popularity-contest does not collect the information. See [1] and [2].
> >
> > popularity-contest purpose is to collect packages usage, not hardware usage.
> > However some hardware usage can be inferred from software usage, by looking at
> > hardware specific packages, like kernels and formware packages.
> >
> > > I think it would be useful to have popularity-contest collect
> > > information on the underlying hardware to guide arch decisions.
> >
> > See bug #238687.
>
> Thank you sir!
Independently of popularity-contest, the difficulty is
-- to define what informations are collected and how.
-- to define how the informations are exploited.
Then we can see how to proceed.
However a popularity-contest-like survey will not be useful when targetting
very small set of users.
For powerpcpse I can offer this graph:
https://popcon.debian.org/stat/sub-powerpcspe.png
which show zero submissions since approximately 2020.
Cheers,
--
Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>
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