[Popcon-developers] popcon.d.o graphs

[Mike Hommey]

On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 11:51:59PM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 12:46:50PM +0200, Mike Hommey wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I'm not sure this is the appropriate list to talk about the presentation
> > side of the popcon results, but here I am.
> > 
> > First, the current data shown by graphs seen outdated compared to the
> > current data. Getting the graph for e.g. xulrunner-5.0 shows 400
> > installs while http://popcon.debian.org/by_inst.gz says 2836 as of
> > writing. It actually "simply" seems stuck on the 1st of July.
> > 
> > The statistics table shown for the iceweasel source package itself
> > doesn't even contain numbers for xulrunner-5.0:
> > http://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=iceweasel
> 
> Hello Mike, the graph are generated by qa.debian.org and not by us so
> we cannot fix them.
> 
> > Finally, is there any way to obtain graphs for packages that do appear
> > in by_inst.gz but aren't in the archive? (for example xulrunner-7.0)
> > Note that this historical data exists somewhere, because as soon as a
> > package hits the archive (e.g. xulrunner-6.0), its historical data is
> > available in the popcon graphs.
> 
> Not currently. This is a security feature: this prevents to get historical 
> data from private packages.

So, how can one be able to get historical data from packages from e.g.
repos on alioth?

Mike