Presumably we actually have more complete stats already if we were to aggregate the mirror logs for the distfiles + the binary archives.
If we think having more data is valuable, we could add something to port (maybe display on selfupdate) asking people to opt-in. > On Jun 13, 2020, at 11:56 AM, Ken Cunningham > <ken.cunningham.web...@gmail.com> wrote: > No doubt it caused some tempest. > > I was wrong, homebrew’s published stats say they have 5 million openssl > installs this year <https://formulae.brew.sh/analytics/install/365d/> > > and our analytics say we have 547 > <https://ports.macports.org/port/openssl/stats?days=30&days_ago=0> > > And if you think that doesn’t drive everyone’s decision-making extremely > powerfully, I would say we are missing the marketing train. > > Here’s their blurb <https://docs.brew.sh/Analytics> about justifying it. > > Again, I know MacPorts is not going to change that (no point now). But from a > ‘business’ point of view, it was masterful. -- Daniel J. Luke
