Re: Let's start a survey on our userbase

[Cedar Maxwell <cedarmaxwell@mac.com>]

Would it be feasible for someone to create something like popcon that 
instead reported hardware statistics, and would also be integrated the 
installer?  There is response bias inherent in such a survey, and a tool 
like this would provide continually updated statistics.

On 9/18/25 1:19 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> On Thu, 2025-09-18 at 13:13 -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 18, 2025 at 11:29 AM John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
> > <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote:
> > > since we were recently discussing what baseline to use for the powerpc and ppc64 ports,
> > > I was wondering whether we should start a survey on Google Docs or similar to find out
> > > what type of hardware people are using these ports on.
> > >
> > > Does anyone have a suggestion what platform to use for the survey?
> > Related, I think Debian includes a Popularity Contest software; see
> > <https://popcon.debian.org/>. Maybe popcon will reveal some useful
> > statistics.
> >
> > On the downside, I think it is disabled by default.
> popcon.debian.org doesn't disclose the actual hardware which is what we need
> to determine the optimum baseline for the powerpc and ppc64 ports.
>
> Adrian