access to historical popcon data for research purposes?

[Kaylea Champion]

Thanks for the pointer!

Best wishes,
Kaylea

On Fri, Jul 24, 2020 at 2:46 AM Alan Pope <alan.pope at canonical.com> wrote:

> Hi Kaylea,
>
> On Fri, 24 Jul 2020 at 07:34, Kaylea Champion <khascall at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I'm a graduate student studying under Benjamin Mako Hill here at the
>> University of Washington. My current research maps trends and risks to
>> digital infrastructure, seeking to develop models that can predict
>> problems
>> before they cause failure.
>>
>> One of my data sources for this work currently is Debian popcon data --
>> but
>> I had hoped to move on to Ubuntu next.
>>
>> I understand that Ubuntu is moving away from popcon, and I wondered if
>> there's a possibility of accessing historical data so that this
>> information
>> is not lost. For Debian, I've been using APIs to collect this data, but I
>> haven't found an equivalent service for Ubuntu. Can you assist? I've also
>> joined the ubuntu-quality irc channel (kaylea_) in case this is easier to
>> talk through interactively.
>>
>
> I think you might have more success if you ask over on the Ubuntu
> Discourse where the change was announced a little while ago. The people who
> are able to action this change are there, and if they can, I'm sure they'll
> help.
>
>
> https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/popcon-to-be-removed-from-the-standard-seed/17238
>
> All the best,
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