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hk__2 on Nov 25, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Brew commands send data to Google Analytics

Debian's popularity contest package is completely biased and nobody uses it as a serious source. You can’t expect to have reliable data with opt-in.

mrob on Nov 25, 2016 [–]

It's used for bug triage, so I don't think bias is a problem. The bias is rewarding people who opted in by increasing the chance bugs in their software will be fixed.

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