PopularityContest

Latest revision as of 19:51, 16 July 2010

Here's one I made earlier...

[edit] About

I think it would be good for the community to have some idea of the install base for applications. So I wrote a very quick and dirty way for people to submit their installed package list.

Announcement email http://lists.openmoko.org/pipermail/community/2010-April/061231.html

see also http://popcon.debian.org/

[edit] Installation

Try it with the following (will clobber anything called pop in /usr/bin):

wget http://www.timwise.co.uk/om/pop/pop.tar.gz
tar -C / -xzvf pop.tar.gz

[edit] submitting your package list

then submit your package list with

/usr/bin/pop

[edit] collected data

You can view submissions at http://www.timwise.co.uk/om/pop/submissions/

First analysed data (only 5 sumbissions so far): http://www.timwise.co.uk/om/pop/summary20100410.txt

data was fetched and processed with the two scripts at http://github.com/timabell/popularity/tree/master/submissions/

basically:

mkdir tmp
cd tmp
wget -nd -r --no-parent -A '*.txt' http://www.timwise.co.uk/om/pop/submissions/
awk '{ print $1 }' *.txt | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr | less

[edit] results

interesting data I noticed from my initial 5 sumbissions

• 4/5 have tangogps, mokonnect, mokomaze, midori, gpe-scap
• 3/5 have vim, screen, pidgin, navit
• 2/5 have vagalume, ofart, numtpyphysics, iptables, htop
• 1/5 have yaouh, openmoocow, omnewrotate, podboy, pingus, omgps, make, gdb

[edit] code

The code is at http://github.com/timabell/popularity improvements would be welcome, as would inclusion in the various distros. Perhaps if it works out this could be hosted by the various distro servers.

[edit] Todo

• uniqueid for machine / install / user (optional)
• automated submissions (connectivity detection)
• automated analysis
• create ipk
• inclusion in shr feeds
• prompt whether to participate when shr first run
• move data collection to official server