Re: Let's start a survey on our userbase

Would it be feasible for someone to create something like popcon that 
instead reported hardware statistics, and would also be integrated the 
installer?  There is response bias inherent in such a survey, and a tool 
like this would provide continually updated statistics.

On 9/18/25 1:19 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> On Thu, 2025-09-18 at 13:13 -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
>> On Thu, Sep 18, 2025 at 11:29 AM John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> since we were recently discussing what baseline to use for the powerpc and ppc64 ports,
>>> I was wondering whether we should start a survey on Google Docs or similar to find out
>>> what type of hardware people are using these ports on.
>>>
>>> Does anyone have a suggestion what platform to use for the survey?
>> Related, I think Debian includes a Popularity Contest software; see
>> <https://popcon.debian.org/>. Maybe popcon will reveal some useful
>> statistics.
>>
>> On the downside, I think it is disabled by default.
> popcon.debian.org doesn't disclose the actual hardware which is what we need
> to determine the optimum baseline for the powerpc and ppc64 ports.
>
> Adrian
>