On 01/25/2016 02:50 AM, Göktürk Yüksek wrote: > Ian Delaney: > >> 5. At the risk of sounding like Patrick, gentoo lacks some forms >> of documentation pertaining to established proxy maintainers and to >> forms of stats analysis. In discussions, points were raised >> regarding the gathering of stats data re packages' tally of >> downloads and instances of emerging into a gentoo system. Most of >> the desired stats appear to lack any form of tools available to >> gather and report data that would prove helpful in evaluating >> packages of either the m-w or m-n lists. > >> The topic of recruitment and recruiting are tied, but imo, quite >> disparate. > > > I don't want to go off-topic here too much but this is more than a > missing tools issue. There are privacy concerns regarding the > collection of such information. I recall this proposed idea from > Google Summer of Code: > > https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code/2012/Ideas#Package_statistics_reporting_tool >
This was implemented but never deployed. Data collection would always be optional and off by default. There was even a nice configuration file to select exactly which information is and is not sent.
