Re: MacPorts Statistics (was Re: usage numbers for macports vs. homebrew?)

2014-03-25 Thread Julien T
ok. my 2 cents after quick reading this long thread - clearly, submission should be asked on install of macports, either opt-in or opt-out. I'm pretty sure It's a legal constraint in some places (like european union). w opt-in, there is a risk to have little people but it's probably cleaner. It

Re: MacPorts Statistics (was Re: usage numbers for macports vs. homebrew?)

2014-03-24 Thread Mojca Miklavec
Hi, First of all, I would like to express my gratitude to Clemens for getting this project up and running. I really like the website. There is definitely a lot that can be improved, but it's already really nice as it is now. It would probably make sense to discuss and collect different ideas

Re: MacPorts Statistics (was Re: usage numbers for macports vs. homebrew?)

2014-03-23 Thread MK-MacPorts
On 22 Mar 2014, at 20:55 , Clemens Lang c...@macports.org wrote: I do not log any post data along with the IP address, so I cannot tie IPs to UUIDs, except maybe by correlating the last-update timestamp and the log file. We are talking NSA-like meta-data, which could be linked to a real person…

Re: MacPorts Statistics (was Re: usage numbers for macports vs. homebrew?)

2014-03-23 Thread Clemens Lang
Hi, On 22 Mar 2014, at 20:55 , Clemens Lang c...@macports.org wrote: I do not log any post data along with the IP address, so I cannot tie IPs to UUIDs, except maybe by correlating the last-update timestamp and the log file. We are talking NSA-like meta-data, which could be linked to a

Re: MacPorts Statistics (was Re: usage numbers for macports vs. homebrew?)

2014-03-23 Thread MK-MacPorts
Dear Clemens, first of all I apologise if my words were too harsh. It was not my intention to attack you or anyone else on a personal level! I am just concerned about everyone’s privacy. I have (as I said I was going to in a different part of my last mail you didn't quote) changed my

Re: MacPorts Statistics (was Re: usage numbers for macports vs. homebrew?)

2014-03-23 Thread Bradley Giesbrecht
On Mar 22, 2014, at 12:55 PM, Clemens Lang c...@macports.org wrote: I’m not arguing that the data should be completely public, but checking where we are were the data to become completely public through accident or hack, etc. And maybe I’m suggesting that it might not be so dangerous to make

Re: MacPorts Statistics (was Re: usage numbers for macports vs. homebrew?)

2014-03-22 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Sat, Mar 22, 2014 at 2:49 AM, Bradley Giesbrecht wrote: On Mar 20, 2014, at 3:54 AM, Clemens Lang wrote: As a port maintainer, one key thing I'd like to know is the breakdown of OS versions that my users are running. The data is available for that, right? Just a matter of extracting and

Re: MacPorts Statistics (was Re: usage numbers for macports vs. homebrew?)

2014-03-22 Thread Clemens Lang
Hi, Does anyone have a quick link to the db schema or better yet a data dump from stats.macports.neverpanic.de;) ? You'll need to ask Clemens for the actual data dump, but the schema can be found here:

Re: MacPorts Statistics (was Re: usage numbers for macports vs. homebrew?)

2014-03-22 Thread Craig Treleaven
At 7:20 PM +0100 3/22/14, Clemens Lang wrote: Hi, Does anyone have a quick link to the db schema or better yet a data dump from stats.macports.neverpanic.de;) ? You'll need to ask Clemens for the actual data dump, but the schema can be found here:

Re: MacPorts Statistics (was Re: usage numbers for macports vs. homebrew?)

2014-03-22 Thread MK-MacPorts
Just a concerned question: Why is that database given away to anyone who asks? Sure, there are only 10 users who have committed all their information to Clemens’ server neverpanic.de, but I don’t see why information like that shall be spread even further. Greets, Marko

Re: MacPorts Statistics (was Re: usage numbers for macports vs. homebrew?)

2014-03-22 Thread Clemens Lang
Hi, Just a concerned question: Why is that database given away to anyone who asks? I agree this is a valid question; let's discuss that before I hand out any statistics data. However, there are other parts of the database besides the schema that are rather hard to setup (e.g. the

Re: MacPorts Statistics (was Re: usage numbers for macports vs. homebrew?)

2014-03-22 Thread James Berry
On Mar 22, 2014, at 12:04 PM, Clemens Lang c...@macports.org wrote: Hi, Just a concerned question: Why is that database given away to anyone who asks? I agree this is a valid question; let's discuss that before I hand out any statistics data. However, there are other parts of the

Re: MacPorts Statistics (was Re: usage numbers for macports vs. homebrew?)

2014-03-22 Thread Clemens Lang
Hi, On the other hand, the user data is anonymized by the UUID, right? Is there anything in the data that ties the data to a user, beyond the UUID, which is generated randomly by the user install? ipaddress? We only store the UUID, there's no connection to any personal data. The apache

Re: MacPorts Statistics (was Re: usage numbers for macports vs. homebrew?)

2014-03-21 Thread Bradley Giesbrecht
On Mar 20, 2014, at 3:54 AM, Clemens Lang c...@macports.org wrote: As a port maintainer, one key thing I'd like to know is the breakdown of OS versions that my users are running. The data is available for that, right? Just a matter of extracting and presenting it? Yes, that data is

Re: MacPorts Statistics (was Re: usage numbers for macports vs. homebrew?)

2014-03-20 Thread MK-MacPorts
On 19 Mar 2014, at 21:03 , Jeremy Lavergne jer...@lavergne.gotdns.org wrote: From what I can see, our tool will not gather whether a port was Requested or not. I think that's a key data point. Some libs will get installed very frequently as dependencies but will seldom be requested. At the

Re: MacPorts Statistics (was Re: usage numbers for macports vs. homebrew?)

2014-03-20 Thread Clemens Lang
Hi Craig, Thanks, that helped a lot. I like the page layout, very clean. I have to say, though that I'm not a big fan of pie (or donut) graphs. It is much easy to compare magnitudes of a bar as opposed to sections of a donut. I agree. Patches welcome. In general, if anybody with a little

Re: MacPorts Statistics (was Re: usage numbers for macports vs. homebrew?)

2014-03-20 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 11:54 AM, Clemens Lang wrote: Seriously though, it says to install the mpstats port, but port cannot find anything by that name. Even searching for “stat” doesn’t seem to show any likely candidates. That's correct. The port currently doesn't work on any released

Re: MacPorts Statistics (was Re: usage numbers for macports vs. homebrew?)

2014-03-20 Thread Clemens Lang
Hi, sudo port install http://files.neverpanic.de/mpvim.tar. In what way is mpvim related to mpstats? In none, I'm sorry. Correct URL is https://neverpanic.de/documents/mpstats.tar -- Clemens Lang ___ macports-users mailing list

MacPorts Statistics (was Re: usage numbers for macports vs. homebrew?)

2014-03-19 Thread Craig Treleaven
At 11:06 PM +0100 3/18/14, Rainer Müller wrote: On 2014-03-18 22:09, James Berry wrote: * More integrated web app with better access to ports, etc. Which could also be integrated with the upcoming statistics gathering in the next MacPorts release. As I understand it, the statistics process

Re: MacPorts Statistics (was Re: usage numbers for macports vs. homebrew?)

2014-03-19 Thread Jeremy Lavergne
Regarding the console spam, we can only avoid it if the user “cleanly uninstalls MacPorts [1]. Then if the stats cron job is treated or installed as a typical port, the cron job would be uninstalled. However, if, as suggested, the user just deletes /opt/local/* then we can’t really cleanup

Re: MacPorts Statistics (was Re: usage numbers for macports vs. homebrew?)

2014-03-19 Thread Clemens Lang
Hi Craig, As I understand it, the statistics process arose in GSOC 11, right? Is it pretty much as described at: […] Is the above accurate? I understand that Popcon tracks the last access time (atime) for files in a port and that our implementation does not. Yes, that's correct.

Re: MacPorts Statistics (was Re: usage numbers for macports vs. homebrew?)

2014-03-19 Thread Jeremy Lavergne
On Mar 19, 2014, at 15:16, Craig Treleaven ctrelea...@cogeco.ca wrote: As I understand it, the statistics process arose in GSOC 11, right? Is it pretty much as described at: https://trac.macports.org/wiki/MacPortsStatisticsGSoC2011 There is a (short) thread about the proposal here:

Re: MacPorts Statistics (was Re: usage numbers for macports vs. homebrew?)

2014-03-19 Thread Eric Gallager
On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 4:16 PM, Clemens Lang c...@macports.org wrote: Hi Craig, As I understand it, the statistics process arose in GSOC 11, right? Is it pretty much as described at: [...] Is the above accurate? I understand that Popcon tracks the last access time (atime) for

Re: MacPorts Statistics (was Re: usage numbers for macports vs. homebrew?)

2014-03-19 Thread Craig Treleaven
At 5:49 PM -0400 3/19/14, Eric Gallager wrote: On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 4:16 PM, Clemens Lang mailto:c...@macports.orgc...@macports.org wrote: What is the user wants to get rid of MacPorts and deletes /opt/local/*. My experience is that launchd will _never_ stop trying to run the missing

Re: MacPorts Statistics (was Re: usage numbers for macports vs. homebrew?)

2014-03-19 Thread Craig Treleaven
At 9:16 PM +0100 3/19/14, Clemens Lang wrote: Do we have a sample statistics page for a port/all ports? http://stats.macports.neverpanic.de/ Thanks, that helped a lot. I like the page layout, very clean. I have to say, though that I'm not a big fan of pie (or donut) graphs. It is much

Re: MacPorts Statistics (was Re: usage numbers for macports vs. homebrew?)

2014-03-19 Thread Ludwig
On Wed, 19 Mar 2014, Craig Treleaven wrote: At 9:16 PM +0100 3/19/14, Clemens Lang wrote: Do we have a sample statistics page for a port/all ports? http://stats.macports.neverpanic.de/ Thanks, that helped a lot. I like the page layout, very clean. I have to say, though that I'm not a

Re: MacPorts Statistics (was Re: usage numbers for macports vs. homebrew?)

2014-03-19 Thread Craig Treleaven
At 7:43 PM -0700 3/19/14, Ludwig wrote: On Wed, 19 Mar 2014, Craig Treleaven wrote: At 9:16 PM +0100 3/19/14, Clemens Lang wrote: Do we have a sample statistics page for a port/all ports? http://stats.macports.neverpanic.de/ Thanks, that helped a lot. I like the page layout, very