Feature changed by: Pavol Rusnak (prusnak) Feature #305877, revision 6 Title: Popularity contest openSUSE-11.2: New Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Vladimir Nadvornik (nadvornik) 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 ... -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/305877