Popularity contest

[martinko]

Sam Lawrance wrote:
> 
> On 02/09/2007, at 9:50 AM, Nils Vogels wrote:
> 
>> Since a little while, Debian has been using a popularity contest, that
>> sends anonymous usage details of various packages that Debian users have
>> installed.
>>
>> These details are summarized at http://popcon.debian.org/
>>
>> I figure something like this would be a huge advantage for the FreeBSD
>> ports-community as well, and would like to propose starting something
>> like this up for FreeBSD as well (unless I am misinformed, nothing to
>> the sort exists at this point), either by porting popcon to FreeBSD, or
>> by doing something completely different.
>>
>> Any thoughts?
>>
> 
> I believe http://bsdstats.org/ already collects information on installed 
> ports (though it doesn't seem to be accessible right now).
> 
> 

Unfortunately, the site is mostly non-functional at the moment and there 
seems to be no progress for quite some period.  :-(