On Sun, May 13, 2007 at 01:52:22PM -0500, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
I think it would be cool to track some statistics about how people are using MacPorts.
We should track how many users have each port installed, so that we can determine what the "most popular" ports are. Not just how many have tried a port and then uninstalled it again, but how many people currently have a particular port active. When a user activates a port, the count should go up; when a user deactivates a port, the count should go back down.
This might be considered an invasion of privacy... would anybody here be opposed to this? Participation in these statistics could be made optional through a config file setting. But it should probably be on by default, otherwise we probably wouldn't get much data. [snip]
Thoughts?
Yes. That's evil, don't do it. There are a number of useful features that macports needs that limited developer and support resources can be spent on (new, variants-aware dependency engine anyone?) instead of features that (effectively) spy on users. -eric