Old modules

[Samuel Verstraete]

I like that idea... i know a lot of ppl will now start crapping
about privacy and things like that... The thing is that if we have a
ranking list of what ppl find important we can focus development more
on those modules
Just reporting what is installed (and in what version) would give us a
nice tool just to check which modules the users think are important
gr,S


On Fri, 25 Aug 2006 14:22:42 +0200 (CEST)
"Duncan Gibson" <duncan.gibson at xs4all.nl> wrote:

> > i've seen, that there are over 800 old modules in moonbase (Updated
> > 2000-2004).
> > ...
> > If we think we don't need [an old broken module], we would write a
> > mail to the normal Maillinglist, asking who is using or needing it,
> > ...
> 
> When I first installed Lunar, I remember asking on #lunar whether
> there were any statistics about which modules were being downloaded.
> As only moonbase is really downloaded from Lunar, and all modules
> are downloaded from their own sites, there's no log file on Lunar
> that can give any information on the top ten modules.
> 
> How about adding an option to lunar/theedge to send the list of
> installed modules to some 'office-of-statistics' address/port at
> lunar-linux.org and see what is actually being downloaded, and what
> is ignored. Or, to update the core tools like 'lin' to supply the
> information if an option is set. Obviously both of these need some
> conscious action by the user to provide such reporting, and not be
> enabled as mandatory spyware by default.
> 
> The results could be published on a DistroWatch-type statistics page,
> showing number of users/downloads in the past 12/6/3/1 months.
> 
> Just an idea. I'm full of ideas. It's time for action that I lack :-)
> 
> Feel free to pick as many holes in it as you like.
> 
> Cheers
> Duncan / engelsman
> 
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