[Ubuntu] Launchpad download stats script

[johan.vandewauw at gmail.com]

On Dec 11, 2010 8:47pm, Alex Mandel <tech_dev at wildintellect.com> wrote:

> It's also unclear if the ppa is included in this sampling method.

PPA's are included in popcon.




> Thanks,

> Alex



> On 12/11/2010 02:14 AM, johan.vandewauw at gmail.com wrote:

> > For ubuntu you could also check how many installations you have with

> > popcon.

> > popcon.ubuntu.com

> > http://ubuntu-popcon.43-1.org/cgi-bin/graph.pl?name=qgis

> >

> > On Dec 11, 2010 3:35am, Alex Mandel tech_dev at wildintellect.com> wrote:

> >> Question came up today of how many QGIS users are there. Since the

> >

> >> downloads happen from at least 4-5 major sites

> >

> >> (kyngchaos,osgeo4w,launchpad,elgis,qgis.org) of which only one is

> >

> >> directly a QGIS server the numbers are obviously short.

> >

> >

> >

> >> Doing some digging there's a new api addition for launchpad that lets

> >

> >> you get the data (soon to show up on the web interface too). The stats

> >

> >> aren't quite there yet, pending full web log scans on launchpad's side

> >

> >> but I wrote script this afternooon that is ready to start pulling the

> >

> >> data as soon as it's there. Example csv output is up to, just with

> >

> >> obviously wrong numbers.

> >

> >

> >

> >>  
> http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~wildintellect/+junk/launchpadapi-examples/files

> >>

> >

> >

> >

> >> Inspiration was from this ticket

> >

> >> https://bugs.launchpad.net/soyuz/+bug/139855

> >

> >

> >

> >> Just thought this might be of use to others. QGIS team, Tim and I  
> talked

> >

> >> about working this python script into the Django site so we can list  
> the

> >

> >> number of Ubuntu downloads anytime we want and aggregate it with other

> >

> >> stats we have.

> >

> >

> >

> >> Thanks,

> >

> >> > Alex

> >






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