Re: package download stats?

2003-09-18 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 04:43:00PM +0200, Lapo Luchini wrote: As a mere curiosity: would be possible to nkow how many times the packages are downloaded? (maybe grepping ftp/http logs) OK.. don't listen to me: of course the logs are on the mirrors =P I would love to know the answer to this,

Re: package download stats?

2003-09-18 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 10:56:03AM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Thu, 18 Sep 2003, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 04:43:00PM +0200, Lapo Luchini wrote: As a mere curiosity: would be possible to nkow how many times the packages are downloaded? (maybe grepping ftp/http logs)

Re: package download stats?

2003-09-18 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Thu, 18 Sep 2003, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 10:56:03AM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Thu, 18 Sep 2003, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 04:43:00PM +0200, Lapo Luchini wrote: As a mere curiosity: would be possible to nkow how many times the

Re: package download stats?

2003-09-18 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 11:20:04AM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Thu, 18 Sep 2003, Christopher Faylor wrote: That's kind of what I was thinking. I could generate a cgi script to run, if necessary but obviously it would need some kind of authentication to avoid abuse. Hmm, I doubt we can

Re: package download stats?

2003-09-18 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Thu, 18 Sep 2003, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 11:20:04AM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Thu, 18 Sep 2003, Christopher Faylor wrote: That's kind of what I was thinking. I could generate a cgi script to run, if necessary but obviously it would need some kind of

Re: package download stats?

2003-09-18 Thread Lapo Luchini
Igor Pechtchanski wrote: But, seriously, I just wanted to make it less than trivial to use. It shouldn't be as easy as opening http://cygwin.com/downloadstats.cgi?apache to register an apache download. Yeah, who needs simple stuff? Although, actually, you do need a bit more than that -- at

Re: package download stats?

2003-09-18 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Christopher Faylor writes: Actually, after I said that, I realized that we already gather page hit statistics. I'm more interested in seeing what people actually are downloading for packages, though. What people are actually using may be even more interesting. Do you know about Debian's

Re: package download stats?

2003-09-18 Thread Robert Collins
On Fri, 2003-09-19 at 01:11, Christopher Faylor wrote: That's kind of what I was thinking. I could generate a cgi script to run, if necessary but obviously it would need some kind of authentication to avoid abuse. Is there something like this out there somewhere? popularity-contest does

Re: package download stats?

2003-09-18 Thread Robert Collins
On Fri, 2003-09-19 at 03:18, Christopher Faylor wrote: I'm all for adding this to setup but we'll have to wait for Robert to come online to see his take on this. I'm not all that interested, though I will review patches for impact on setup. Clean design etc etc needed. It doesn't feel like