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- This directory contains some scripts used to post-process popularity-contest
- entries. You should have a lot of submissions from different users (at
- least 100 of them, if possible) for these results to be valid.
-
- To collect results, use procmail or some other mail alias to e-mail
- submissions to a file called, say, new-popcon-entries.
-
- You should run popcon-process.sh once a day, or so. It calls prepop.pl to
- split the mailbox file into a directory (popcon-entries) with one file per
- submission, and only one submission per participant. (Since each
- participant makes a submission only once per day, it's very important to
- remove duplicates.)
-
- HINT: if you have an account on popcon.debian.org, you can find a pre-processed
- popcon-entries directory in /org/popcon.debian.org/popcon-mail. Feel free to
- use these files to generate your own statistics.
-
- Now you can do, for example:
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- cat popcon-entries/*/* | popanal.py
-
- which creates a file named results. Output lines look like this:
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- <name> <vote> <old> <recent-ctime> <no-files>
-
- <name> is the package name;
- <vote> is the number of people who use this package regularly;
- <old> is the number of people who installed, but don't use this package
- regularly;
- <recent-ctime> is the number of people who upgraded this package recently;
- <no-files> is the number of people whose entry didn't contain enough
- information (atime and ctime were 0).
-