[SlugBug] Debian Popularity Contest

Neil McGovern maulkin at halon.org.uk
Tue Oct 18 09:57:48 BST 2005


On Tue, Oct 18, 2005 at 07:51:26AM +0100, Andy Davidson wrote:
> Neil McGovern wrote:
> >We're[0] going for a bit of a push to raise the profile of
> >Popularity-Contest[1].
> [...]
> >Not only does it tell us architecture information (eg: which
> >architectures are being used), but also which packages are popular. We
> >use this data to help decide what does on teh 1st cd etc.
> 
> Not that it would bother me, but it would bother some people; is the 
> data sent anonymously ?
> 

Yup :) It's all anomylised.

Neil
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