[aur-general] Proposed rules for packages entering [community]

[Ronald van Haren]

On 12/4/08, bardo <ilbardo at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 9:54 AM, Kristoffer Fossgård <kfs1 at online.no> wrote:
>> Your all missing my point. I never said counting packages by
>> downloadrate is a perfect solution but that IT IS GOOD ENOUGH _and_
>> BETTER THAN THE VOTE SYSTEM.
>
> That's what I thought. Even monitoring a single download mirror could
> be enough, if it's not an obscure and unpopular one. At least gathered
> data would be statistically *relevant*, even though not accurate. We
> can think of a single mirror as a good approximation of the whole
> community, excluding i18n/l10n packages, which are highly dependendt
> on the physical location of the mirror itself.
>
> Corrado
>

I would think that the usage of packages depend on geographical
location in the same way as distribution usage depend on geographical
location.

ronald