I don't want to know who is using it. I want to know the following:
  1. How many installs this month?
  2. What Perl versions were used to install it this month?
  3. What OS'es was it installed this month?

I don't care if it's in New York or Newfoundland. I don't care if it's one guy on 10 computers or 10 guys on one computer. I don't care if they make a million a month or lose a million a month.

Why do I care? Because I want to allocate the 4-8 hours I have a month to the modules that have the most usage. That's the only reason. It has nothing to do with ego.

Also, as the user, I want to know how many installs there are for a given module on my OS with my Perl version. Let's say I want to use module X, but no-one has ever installed it on my OS. Now, I know I might have issues. But, if 10k people have installed it on my OS, I feel pretty safe knowing most of the kinks have been worked out. Same goes for Perl version. If the only people who've ever installed this module had Perl 5.8.x installed, but I have 5.005_3 installed, I might expect issues.

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In reply to Re: Re: Gathering module usage statistics by dragonchild
in thread Gathering module usage statistics by Juerd

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