FS#12991 - [pkgstats] Add a monthly cron job to the package
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Opened by Aaron Griffin (phrakture) - Monday, 26 January 2009, 21:32 GMT
Last edited by Pierre Schmitz (Pierre) - Saturday, 05 June 2010, 15:04 GMT
Opened by Aaron Griffin (phrakture) - Monday, 26 January 2009, 21:32 GMT
Last edited by Pierre Schmitz (Pierre) - Saturday, 05 June 2010, 15:04 GMT
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In order to get recurring stats, perhaps we should add a
/etc/cron.monthly/pkgstats cron job to the package.
I imagine, now that the news item is "off the radar", stats submissions will dwindle. Doing this would give us better recurring stats. |
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Closed by Pierre Schmitz (Pierre)
Saturday, 05 June 2010, 15:04 GMT
Reason for closing: Won't implement
Saturday, 05 June 2010, 15:04 GMT
Reason for closing: Won't implement
Just not sure how it would actually reflect the average usage. How many users have both the cron deamon loaded by default and the pkgstats package installed? Are these numbers enough to come up with reasonable conclusions?
Regarding trends: I was working under the impression that Pierre maintains not only usage, but the date of submission, allowing us to visualize time spans. I may be wrong though
as if Pierre maintains also date of submission I don't know. Guess Pierre is the one to answer that.
This might sound extreme, but it'd help to give Arch developers a truer indication of: how many people use our wonderful distribution; the popularity of each package.
This method would overcome the problem of 'pkgstats' not being called when users haven't loaded 'cron' or have moved their monthly cron-job directory elsewhere. What do you guys think about all of this?