Dear Ubuntu Devs/Webmasters, I would like to know whether it is possible to receive the popularity contest data (without the MY_HOSTID identifier) from the very past until today. The reason why I ask is to run an empirical study on open source development, and software development in general. In economics, a special market is a two-sided markets. It is characterised by three players, 2 user groups and a platform. The distinguishing feature of these markets compared to other markets is that members of let's say group 1 are more likely to join the platform if more people of group 2 join it, and vica versa. Examples include dating clubs, where men and women would like to meet, or programming projects where developers are more likely to develop for the iPhone because of its large user base, then for Android, and this assures that iPhone has nicer apps, and thus more users. Of course, this can be said about other IT projects as well. Even though software development is one of the most noted examples in theoretical articles, no study have looked at the effect empirically. The idea about popularity contest data is to extend that dataset (probably for a limited set of projects) with mailing-list, Trac and version control log files in order to have measures for development intensity, and test how strong the two-sided effect might be in open source software development. Moreover, such a study might come up with insights on the critical times in a project's life, that might help Canonical and other open source software companies to better organise their resources. I hope you will find the above idea interesting, and will help me by providing these data. Thanks for your time and effort, Viktor