On Wednesday 19 August 2009, Duncan wrote: > FWIW, It'd be useful to know about @system packages as well, > particularly portage, I'd guess, and there's likely others. AFAIK > smolt depends on portage ATM, but the particular versions installed > and percentage for each could be /very/ helpful as more people run > smolt.
There's definately interesting numbers in the packages people have installed that are not in the world file. Judging from the page Sebastian prepared a table "Non-world-file packages", which can list "other" ebuilds. The table cannot list all packages anyone has installed, but maybe a selected number of ebuilds. Another interface (query form, sql export, or regular custom reports) could then allow maintainers to query for specific packages or combinations. > And is there an anonymous ID number or other means taken to ensure > that a user that reports daily is going to refresh his own stats, but > not crowd out the guy reporting monthly or quarterly? Yes, the client associates its submits with a uuid it stores locally, and the server will update the client's profile (deleting the old data). > How often /should/ we update? > Every time we sync and finish our routine updates? Only once a > quarter? Fedora (where Smolt originated) recommends people to submit once a month using a cron entry. But that was back when Smolt only supported Hardware and OS statistics (that change less often). Maybe a weekly schedule is more appropriate in Gentoo? I think the Fedora people will kill us though for the increased server load as they run the official receiving server (they currently have 100 000 people submitting each month). Robert
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