Re: Future of armv7

On 11/17/25 12:57, Vadim Goncharov wrote:
> On Mon, 17 Nov 2025 12:08:29 -0500
> John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> 
>> On 11/15/25 14:14, void wrote:
>>> On Sat, Nov 15, 2025 at 11:44:42AM -0700, Warner Losh wrote:
>>>    
>>>> Community surveys, show of hands at conferences, mailing list traffic and
>>>> armv7 package downloads (this is second hand).
>>>
>>> Hmm. OK. But you'd never have counted my usage for example, and I
>>> use 3x rpi2b's.
>>>
>>> I've never seen a survey about this and I've never attended a
>>> conference. Much of the time if there's an issue I'd
>>> search first before posting on freebsd-arm@.
>>> I think it's reasonable to assume I'm not alone in this.
>>
>> There is an annual user survey broadcast to announce@, etc.  Please
>> do fill it out the next time it is offered.  The last survey was posted
>> in April of 2025, so I expect the next one to be around the same
>> timeframe in 2026.
>   
> Many FreeBSD users are not subscribed and do not fill surveys. Seems that it
> should be some more aggressive stats gathering, e.g. enabled by default
> periodic scripts transmitting anonimized usage (this could be done even via
> things like modifying URL for pkg's vuln.xml fetching), questions in the
> installer, and/or other things.

No, our users generally do not want boxes to call back "home", certainly not
by default.  We do already have some stats on which package files are downloaded.

-- 
John Baldwin