On Sat, Nov 10, 2018 at 09:49:00PM -0000, Anatoli Babenia wrote:
I need only package info like
https://popcon.debian.org/ but getting
stats about Fedora hardware similar to
https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/ is
interesting.
I can not find the source code for Smolt. The first point at
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Smolt_retirement#Rationale is that Smalt is not maintained
for more than 10 months, but census GitHub is 5 years old.
I am not a fan of rewrites. It seems to me that taking
http://web.archive.org/web/20121029093725/http://www.smolts.org/static/st...
and then fixing that is way faster than writing everything from scratch.
I wish rationale above contained more technical details, because rewriting is always a
step back until everything is implemented, and it would be interesting to know what were
design limitation and why census design is better.
It's a little old now, but back then Nathaniel presented Cencus at Flock and the
presentation may answer some of your questions:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcNYmBrSi14
Pierre