popcon.ubuntu.com: Ubuntu Popularity Contest statistics is out of date

[Tehnick]

Hi,

Information on the web site is a little bit outdated.

$ curl http://popcon.ubuntu.com/ 2> /dev/null | grep 'Last generated'
Made by <a href="mailto:<email address hidden>"> The Ubuntu Web Team </a>.
Last generated on Fri Jul 6 10:55:54 2012 UTC. <br>

$ curl -I http://popcon.ubuntu.com/by_inst.gz | grep 'Last-Modified'
Last-Modified: Fri, 06 Jul 2012 10:54:16 GMT

And etc...

Few days ago I sent email to <email address hidden>, but there is no reaction.

I open this bug report here, because as we can see in #495951 ubuntu website
team doesn't have access to popcon.ubuntu.com.

Could you fix this web service or contact with its owners?

Best regards,
Boris

[Thomas Hood (jdthood)]

It's now at December 2012.

[Tehnick (tehnick)]

Hi,

Let's see to <http://popcon.ubuntu.com/>:

1) Quotation from description (top part of main page):
   "Every day the server anonymizes the results and publishes this survey."
2) Last generated on Thu Dec 20 19:38:22 2012 UTC. (lower part of main page)
3) Today is 04 Apr 2013.

So it does not look that this web service works as expected.
Unlike <http://popcon.debian.org/>, which works perfectly.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Alexandre Detiste (alexandre-detiste)]

Results are frozen again: "Last generated on Sun Apr 19 02:33:10 2015 UTC. "

[Chris Rainey (ckrzen)]

Frozen, again, since Wed Jun 22 15:09:05 2016 UTC and my bug report(https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/popularity-contest/+bug/1711420/comments/2) has been marked as 'invalid'.

Has this become a 'small-toe' evolutionarily abandoned tool?

[Lenin (gagarin)]

It's getting updated, but I'm sure it's wrong:

There must be less i386 Ubuntu users than amd64 Ubuntu users that have popularity-contest installed and activated!

[Chris Rainey (ckrzen)]

We appreciate that this bug may be old and you might not be interested in discussing it any more. But if you are then please upgrade to the latest Ubuntu version and re-test. If you then find the bug is still present in the newer Ubuntu version, please add a comment here telling us which new version it is in and change the bug status to Confirmed.

[Chris Rainey (ckrzen)]

http://popcon.ubuntu.com/ is updating as of: Last generated on Mon Dec 31 01:30:12 2018 UTC.

[Lenin (gagarin)]

The data must be wrong if there's more i386 users than amd64 users.

[Chris Rainey (ckrzen)]

Agreed. And with the latest versions of Ubuntu proper collecting telemetry at first login, I wonder if this tool should simply be removed from the archives or is somebody still using it for development purposes?

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for popularity-contest (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

[Lenin (gagarin)]

It's now 2019, it's still wrong. Please remove it (the webpage as well as the package) OR fix it

[Adolfo Jayme Barrientos (fitojb)]

I think it‘s safe to assume that this old Debian tool is going to be removed.