Re: Guix user statistics and upstream/downstream dependencies

[Maxim Cournoyer]

Hi John,

John Kehayias <john.kehayias@protonmail.com> writes:

> Hi Guix-ers,
>
> I have been working on putting in a concept note (to be hopefully
> invited for a full proposal) for the Open Technology Sustainability
> Fund (thanks Maxim for posting this earlier!). My goal would be to get
> support for some broad and deep improvements to Guix around
> user/contributor workflows, governance and organization, and generally
> improving our response to bugs/patches/feature work. Unfortunately
> this comes at a very busy time of year for me, and just before I head
> off for some travel.
>
> Anyway, I wanted to ask if there is any info or statistics anyone has
> to help with some project information they request:
>
> 1. Users & Beneficiaries: Provide an overview of the project’s user
>    base, their demographics and statistics, and any other indirect
>    beneficiaries.
>
> 2. Dependencies: Provide an overview of the project’s software
>    upstream and downstream dependencies.
>
> For the first, maybe someone has some unofficial surveys or things
> like download stats, mirrors, etc.?

We have detailed anonymized nginx logs of all downloaded substitutes
from Berlin, at least.  If you are interested to use this data as a
source we could probably make it available to you since it's anonymized
(real IP addresses have been obfuscated).

-- 
Thanks,
Maxim