From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 26 17:52:37 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CAE8916A405 for ; Mon, 26 Mar 2007 17:52:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from mail-out4.apple.com (mail-out4.apple.com [17.254.13.23]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F02013C45A for ; Mon, 26 Mar 2007 17:52:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from relay5.apple.com (a17-128-113-35.apple.com [17.128.113.35]) by mail-out4.apple.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l2QHqan6026286; Mon, 26 Mar 2007 10:52:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from relay5.apple.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by relay5.apple.com (Symantec Mail Security) with ESMTP id 6722929C005; Mon, 26 Mar 2007 10:52:36 -0700 (PDT) X-AuditID: 11807123-ad629bb000005a91-ce-46080864bb62 Received: from [17.214.13.96] (cswiger1.apple.com [17.214.13.96]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by relay5.apple.com (Apple SCV relay) with ESMTP id 4FD2F30400B; Mon, 26 Mar 2007 10:52:36 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <460508C8.6010607@siol.net> References: <460508C8.6010607@siol.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: <92FA99CC-4340-4D9A-A23C-741B1135E60E@mac.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Chuck Swiger Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 10:52:35 -0700 To: Karel Miklav X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.2) X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAA== Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How many distfile downloads X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 17:52:37 -0000 On Mar 24, 2007, at 4:17 AM, Karel Miklav wrote: > How many downloads can be expected from automated > processes? Is there any statistics for port > popularity or something? Could somebody please > give me a number of downloads for his distfiles? The most popular port that I serve the distfile for (dvd+rw-tools) gets downloaded about 20-30 times a day (~6900 downloads since Mar 2006); automated downloads don't seem to be a significant portion of that traffic. You might be able to get some idea of relative popularity from freshports.org...? Setting up a proper /robots.txt will help reduce automated D/Ls, but if the traffic volume becomes too much, consider hosting the distfiles with SourceForge, the GNU project, Collab.net, or similar...assuming your license and goals are compatible with one or more of the previously mentioned organizations. :-) -- -Chuck