[Popcon-developers] Announcing new record number of popcon submissions

[Petter Reinholdtsen]

Today, the number of popularity-contest submissions passed 30000.  I
suggest we announce it.  Perhaps something like this:

To: debian-announce at lists.debian.org, debian-news at lists.debian.org
Subject: Debian popularity-contest reaches new milestone - 30 006 submissions

Today, popularity-contest the Debian system allowing users to tell the
developers which packages are in use, reached another milestone.  The
number of submissions passed 30 000 machines, after months of steady
climbing.  The results are available from <URL:http://popcon.debian.org/>.

The information collected is used to make sure the most popular Debian
packages are on the installation CDs, to prioritize translation work,
and other aspects of the distribution work where package usage is
interesting to know.  The popularity-contest system also make it
possible to see which popular packages are missing in the Debian
archive.  These are the 10 most popular "missing" packages:

   1 lame
   2 skype
   3 linux-image-2.6.18-3-686
   4 transcode
   5 opera
   6 linux-headers-2.6.18-3
   7 mjpegtools
   8 realplayer
   9 beryl-core
  10 linux-headers-2.6.18-3-686

(The kernel packages are from an obsolete package previously in the
Debian archive.  The rest are much used packages never in the
archive.)

It also show the architectures in use.  As the 30000 mark was passed,
this was the relative use of various architectures:

      1   0.00% kfreebsd-amd64
      2   0.01% i486
      2   0.01% ppc64
      4   0.01% hurd-i386
      8   0.03% armel
      8   0.03% s390
     10   0.03% m68k
     11   0.04% armeb
     12   0.04% kfreebsd-i386
     18   0.06% mips
     33   0.11% ia64
     44   0.15% hppa
     45   0.15% mipsel
     56   0.19% alpha
    152   0.51% sparc
    390   1.31% powerpc
    537   1.80% arm
   3566  11.98% amd64
  24875  83.55% i386
  29774 100.00% total (ignored 232 without arch info)

If you want to participate, to make the statistic even more accurate,
install the popularity-contest package and answer yes when asked if
you want the machine participate.

Friendly,
-- 
Petter Reinholdtsen