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[Arjan Bouter <abouter AT sourcemage.org>]

On Sun, 7 Jan 2007 19:07:45 -0600
Daniel Goller <dgoller AT satx.rr.com> wrote:

> On Sun, 07 Jan 2007 14:24:41 -0600
> Jeremy Blosser <jblosser-smgl AT firinn.org> wrote:
> 
> 
> > 
> > We hear from a decent number of users who do the 6 month / 1 year update
> > thing, though we've never really accepted supporting that timeframe.
> > According to
> > 
> > http://ledger.sourcemage.org/users/statistic_live.php?select=openssh
> > 
> > 6 of 41 machines (14%) are running openssh 4.3p1, which hit the grimoire
> > 2006-02-01 and is older than what's even in the current stable.  This 
> > isn't
> > a lot of data (it would be nice if ledger could show the grimoire those
> > boxes are on; does anyone know a way?) but it's what we probably have
> > available.
> > 
> > While people running stable in production are going to be the most
> > critical cases (as you noted), we hear it from general workstation users 
> > as
> > well.
> > 
> 
> Let me just cut this out.
> How about if we started a seperate thread, asking users to support us by 
> giving us info through ledger.
> 41 machines and over 40 devs with some more than one machine does not look 
> like it's a widely installed tool amongst users.
> I understand it's optional. With the community being so small, we might get 
> more support from users than gentoo got when they tried to collect 
> statistics.
> The culprit there was it was a private project, privately hosted, not a 
> gentoo hosted project, since ledger is our project, the point should never 
> be an issue here.
> Question is how many users know they could help us through ledger?
> The more know, the more can decide for themselves to help us out, and in 
> the long run reap the benefits by time being spent on what they use, and we 
> all win.
> 
> [Yes][No][Maybe] (Please check one)
> 
> Daniel

[No] for my boxen. I had 2 of them listed ages ago but stopped updating the 
list.
Mainly because I've been without internet at home for quite a while now and 
update my laptop while I'm @work.
The others are updated offline from downloaded sources.

Our company policy is not to publish data about computers connected to the 
network so I can't upload new data to ledger.

Sorry,
Arjan

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