From: Ed Tomlinson <edt@aei.ca>
Organization: me
To: "Barry K. Nathan" <barryn@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: starting with 2.7
Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2005 22:15:52 -0500
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On Wednesday 05 January 2005 05:57, Barry K. Nathan wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 01:27:09AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > Horst von Brand <vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl> wrote:
> > >
> > > Is there any estimate of the number of daily-straight-from-BK users?
> > 
> > fwiw, it seems that there were ~1200 downloads of 2.6.10-rc2-mm4 from
> > kernel.org.  Almost all via http - only 20 downloads appear in vsftpd.log,
> > which seems fishy.  The number of downloads via mirrors is unknown.
> 
> The front-page link to the "latest -mm patch" is http. Also, people like
> me who use wget and lftp probably prefer to download using http, since
> with those clients it ends up working like FTP but without wasting time on
> anonymous login (i.e. it happens to be faster).

Or those like me who use bk pull...

Maybe we should setup an 'opt in / open logging' type concept so we can know
how many people test a release.  It would be very interesting to see if the number
of more testers (or tester days) does lead to a more stable release.

Ed Tomlinson
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