Feature changed by: Klaus Ollesch (Klaus_O) Feature #305877, revision 42 Title: Popularity contest openSUSE-11.2: Rejected by Stephan Kulow (coolo) reject date: 2009-09-07 13:57:05 reject reason: No update, too late for 11.2 - and for the future I would rather see it integrated into smolt Priority Requester: Important Projectmanager: Desirable openSUSE-11.3: Rejected by Andreas Jaeger (a_jaeger) reject date: 2010-11-04 14:42:00 reject reason: Not done. Priority Requester: Desirable openSUSE Distribution: Evaluation by engineering manager Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Vladimir Nadvornik (nadvornik) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: We need a feedback about packages that are preferred by users and actively used. Debian already has a tool named Popularity contest (popcon) * reusing popcon will give us results that are directly comparable with Debian and Ubuntu * packagers team can take care of the package * we need a configuration dialog in YaST that is visible enough * we need a server infrastructure on opensuse.org. (There are certain privacy issues, see Debian FAQ for details) References: http://en.opensuse.org/BrainStorming_Prague#We_don.27t_know_which_packages_u... http://popcon.debian.org/FAQ http://popcon.debian.org/ http://popcon.ubuntu.com/ Discussion: #1: Michal Vyskocil (mvyskocil) (2009-02-20 12:56:06) The pupularity-contest executable is a simple Perl script, which should be ported to rpm (replacing of dpkg calls by appropiate rpm alternative should be enough). #2: Pavol Rusnak (prusnak) (2009-03-11 15:53:13) (reply to #1) Replacing of dpkg calls with rpm is a no-go, because of the transactions in RPM. I started to work on a rewrite, will post results soon ... #3: Marek Stopka (m4r3k) (2009-03-13 09:28:08) (reply to #2) And here is a result... :-) http://stick.gk2.sk/blog/2009/03/popcorn-popularity-contest-for-rpm/ #4: Jay Mistry (zmdmw52) (2009-03-15 15:36:25) The software equivalent of Smolts Hardware profiler. Results can be uploaded to a dedicated website (such as is for Smolts- http://www.smolts.org/), so that users can see the relative weight/popularity of various commonly-used applications. #7: Carlos Gonçalves (cgoncalves) (2009-07-25 19:03:58) (reply to #4) There is a GSOC project (http://socghop.appspot.com/student_project/show/google/gsoc2009/gentoo/t1240...) which is addressing this (Smolt) feature to Gentoo, though the author has been coding this aswell to Debian-based distros and more recently considering RPM distros too. I've been working with him on the client integration since I'm its author, and from my side all I can say is that Smolt sooner or later will be addressing this feature, too, but won't be ready in time for openSUSE 11.2 since feature/version freeze is next week (July 31). #5: T. J. Brumfield (enderandrew) (2009-06-13 21:16:54) During install, there can be a simple checkbox such as "Share hardware/software details with openSUSE servers for profiling." #6: Stephan Kulow (coolo) (2009-06-24 11:29:15) first we need the package in and someone to maintain the server or contact debian if they host other distros too. #9: 6tr6tr 6tr6tr (6tr6tr) (2010-10-01 20:16:28) I would actually prefer that things not just have one ranking but: 1. Trustworthiness 2. Privacy 3. Reliability/Uptime/Speed 4. Popularity I think those are all important and very different requirements. #10: Ionuț Arțăriși (mapleoin) (2011-03-31 13:31:57) Is there anyone still working on this? AFAIU there is more work to be done on the server. If that is correct, I might be able to help. #11: Andreas Jaeger (a_jaeger) (2011-07-25 15:39:03) (reply to #10) I'm not aware that anybody is working on this. If you are interested, please go ahead and move this forward. + #12: Klaus Ollesch (klaus_o) (2011-10-02 15:41:42) + hallo, to get such normal user opinions may help to implement needed + programs for normal users. Normal users are interested to update + without problems. They are not able to repair their system with every + suse update. If the nvidia driver fails, when virtual box does not run + ore google earth does not work you can forget the rest. Such a feedback + from normal user is needed if you want to get a bigger community. + Just now you loose one member because of too many continous problems + for a standard user. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/305877