[GenABEL-dev] Download statistics for the GenABEL PPA

[L.C. Karssen]

Dear list,

I'd thought I'd make your day by posting some download statistics of the
ProbABEL packages in the Ubuntu GenABEL PPA [1]. The list is ordered by
Ubuntu code name. This is how to 'decode' the code names to year.month:
precise: 12.04   (this is a Long Term Support release)
quantal: 12.10
raring: 13.04
saucy: 13.10     (the current release)


The columns are: package name, package version, nr of downloads

====== Stats for Ubuntu precise ======
== Current package versions: ==
probabel	0.4.2-2ubuntu1~precise1	16
probabel-examples	0.4.2-2ubuntu1~precise1	0
== Superseded versions: ==
probabel	0.4.1-0ubuntu1~precise1	25
probabel	0.4.0-0ubuntu1~precise1	5
probabel	0.3.0-0ubuntu1~precise1	27
probabel	0.2.2-0ubuntu2~precise1	8
probabel	0.2.0.99-0ubuntu1~precise1	2
probabel	0.2.0-1	2
probabel	0.1.99-1	1

====== Stats for Ubuntu quantal ======
== Current package versions: ==
probabel	0.4.1-0ubuntu1~quantal1	4
== Superseded versions: ==
probabel	0.4.0-0ubuntu1~quantal1	0
probabel	0.3.0-0ubuntu1~quantal2	5

====== Stats for Ubuntu raring ======
== Current package versions: ==
probabel	0.4.1-0ubuntu1~raring1	4
== Superseded versions: ==
probabel	0.4.0-0ubuntu1~raring1	1

====== Stats for Ubuntu saucy ======
== Current package versions: ==
probabel	0.4.2-2ubuntu1~saucy1	3
probabel-examples	0.4.2-2ubuntu1~saucy1	1
== Superseded versions: ==

Some observations:
- It seems (as is to be expected for a server) that most people use
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS.
- Since ProbABEL 0.4.2 I split the examples into a separate package, and
the main package does not depend on it.
- Version 0.4.0 was only briefly online before being superseded by
0.4.1. I guess that at least three of the 5 downloads came from the
servers I administered at Erasmus MC.
- There are 10 downloads for Ubuntu releases before 12.04, but I guess
these are mostly mine, trying the PPA out. Anyway, I hope no one is
using these older versions any more.
- In fact, at least one of each downloaded package is probably mine. I
always test on the LTS release and the current release.
- Note that you can't simply add up these numbers to get the total
number of installed sites because once the PPA is added to the system,
it will automatically update the package whenever the sysadmin will
install general updates.

Debian uses the so-called popularity-contest package to measure how many
people have a package installed (assuming the have the popcon package
installed). Results for that are still disappointing [2], but is
probably because our packages are not in a Debian stable release yet.


Best,

Lennart.


[1] https://launchpad.net/~l.c.karssen/+archive/genabel-ppa
[2] http://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=probabel
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L.C. Karssen
Utrecht
The Netherlands

lennart at karssen.org
http://blog.karssen.org
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