Re: [Tails-dev] stats on upgrade time

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Author: Adam Burns
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Subject: Re: [Tails-dev] stats on upgrade time

Hi Sajolida,

Nice graph!

On 25/11/15 11:10, sajolida wrote:
> But there's always a pretty long tail of people with quite outdated
> versions. If we look, on the day before each release, at the number of
> people that are still not running the latest version:
>
> - Before 1.5: 19%
> - Before 1.6: 24% (we had a shorter cycle due to 1.5.1 here)
> - Before 1.7: 20%


My guess would be that Tails usage cases, in terms of boot and shutdown
frequencies would vary wildy, from daily continual desktop use to very
occasional needs-only booting an image for specific projects or topics.

> I'd like to continue working on this to:
>
> 1. Have a nice script that I can share with more people.
> 2. Make is easier to take decision when doing migrations (like Icedove).
> 3. See if it's worth shipping IUK for more than one version to the next.
> 4. In the future, see how our improvements improve this situation
>    (installation assistant, full-self upgrades, etc.).

>
> Tell me if you have any other idea of how to make these numbers speak or
> what this would be useful for.


Uniquely identify each Tails image to assess and profile their usage
frequencies as per above?

;-)

But seriously, cool stats.

Shine,

Adam.