On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 03:06:04PM +0000, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > Package: popularity-contest > Severity: wishlist > > On to, 2007-04-12 at 13:49 +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > > [Lars Wirzenius] > > > However, changing the popcon debconf question to something like the > > > following might be an acceptable compromise: > > > > > > Would you like to participate in the Debian package popularity > > > contest meter? Blah blah blah. You may also choose to only > > > report once that you have installed this release of Debian on a > > > new machine. In that case no other information from you or your > > > machine gets recorded. > > > > > > [ ] No, I do not want to participate at all. > > > [ ] I want to report once that I have installed Debian. > > > [ ] I want to participate in the package popularity contest. > > > > Interesting idea. Perhaps it deserve a wishlist request in BTS?
I am not sure report-once is workable. Periodic report provide us with basic data integrity checks that are necessary for the data to be meaningful. This favors short-lived installations (someone resinstalling every three months) over long-lived installations (someone installing woody and upgrading all the way to lenny). Also I am afraid this will reduce popcon participation by leading users to choose the 'middle-ground' option. Generally, collecting data is easy. What is hard is to provide meaningful interpretation of them. Cheers, -- Bill. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Imagine a large red swirl here. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
