PopularityContest
From Openmoko
Here's one I made earlier...
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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/
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
submitting your package list
then submit your package list with
/usr/bin/pop
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
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
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.
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