Re: Giving developers clue how many testers verified certain kernelversion

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Fri Jul 22 2005 - 20:02:24 EST


David Lang wrote:
On Sat, 23 Jul 2005, Blaisorblade wrote:

IMHO, I think that publishing statistics about kernel patches downloads would
be a very Good Thing(tm) to do. Peter, what's your opinion? I think that was
even talked about at Kernel Summit (or at least I thought of it there), but
I've not understood if this is going to happen.


remember that most downloads will be from mirrors, and they don't get stats from them.

David Lang


That, plus there is http+ftp+rsync (not to mention git downloads, etc.) and the noise caused by other sites mirroring *us*.

-hpa
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