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There is now a gitstats package for gentoo, maintained by Justin Lecher

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Who said you can’t know how many Debian users are there for a given package?

The popcon installations for gitstats seem to be up to 100 at the moment (package rank 17712 – my unstable installation claims to know 28085 normal packages). Out of those, 23 users actually use it actively.

Now if there was only a way to scale this up by knowing how many % of Debian users have the popularity-contest package installed…

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gitstats has been packaged for Debian by Vincent Fourmond, and is now in unstable. As far as I know, this is the first of my projects that made it into Debian.

$ apt-cache search git statistics
gitstats - statistics generator for git repositories

So, who’s going to debianize ViewGit? Granted, it would be more work, but I think it would have more users too

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After seeing that even a simple plugin for another project can draw some hits when linked from a single page, I grew curious and decided to enable Google Analytics for two externally hosted projects: GitStats and ViewSVN.

According to BerliOS statistics, the latter seems to have drawn in 800-1800 hits each month for the last month, so the results should prove interesting. One good thing about Analytics is that it does not track spiders and other non-humans as those usually don’t run javascripts.

I’d really prefer to have this data in my own hands, rather than Google’s, though. Aren’t there any open source replacements for Google Analytics, yet?

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