On 10/17/05, Petter Reinholdtsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > (...) > > > but is there anyone in the project with academic background about > > this subject ? > > None of the current popcon maintainers have statistical background, as > far as I know. > > We were in touch with someone interested in using the data set to make > a recommender system for debian packages this summer, but nothing came > out of this yet. I believe it would be a nice feature to have, > allowing admins to get reports about packages they might find > interesting based on their current set of installed packages.
It sounds cool. FYI, i've used popcon data in a small script that aims to be a "apt-cache search" replacement - it can retrieve debtags data too and order the results "by popcon", do you see? It wasn't a blocker but it would be cool if popcon data was available in more script friendly formats. -- Gustavo Franco
