This directory contains some scripts used to post-process popularity-contest entries. You should have a lot of submissions from different users (at least 100 of them, if possible) for these results to be valid. To collect results, use procmail or some other mail alias to e-mail submissions to a file called, say, new-popcon-entries. You should run popcon-process.sh once a day, or so. It calls prepop.pl to split the mailbox file into a directory (popcon-entries) with one file per submission, and only one submission per participant. (Since each participant makes a submission once per week, it's very important to remove duplicates.) HINT: if you have an account on popcon.debian.org, you can find a pre-processed popcon-entries directory in /srv/popcon.debian.org/popcon-mail. Feel free to use these files to generate your own statistics. Now you can do, for example: cat popcon-entries/*/* | popanal.py which creates a file named results. Output lines look like this: <name> <vote> <old> <recent-ctime> <no-files> <name> is the package name; <vote> is the number of people who use this package regularly; <old> is the number of people who installed, but don't use this package regularly; <recent-ctime> is the number of people who upgraded this package recently; <no-files> is the number of people whose entry didn't contain enough information (atime and ctime were 0).