Ronald van Haren wrote:
On 12/4/08, bardo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 9:54 AM, Kristoffer Fossgård <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Your all missing my point. I never said counting packages by
downloadrate is a perfect solution but that IT IS GOOD ENOUGH _and_
BETTER THAN THE VOTE SYSTEM.
That's what I thought. Even monitoring a single download mirror could
be enough, if it's not an obscure and unpopular one. At least gathered
data would be statistically *relevant*, even though not accurate. We
can think of a single mirror as a good approximation of the whole
community, excluding i18n/l10n packages, which are highly dependendt
on the physical location of the mirror itself.
Corrado
I would think that the usage of packages depend on geographical
location in the same way as distribution usage depend on geographical
location.
ronald
How would any one mirror be any less biased that people submitting data
via pkgstats? You are just sampling a different subset of people.
Allan
