[LAU] How to disable Ardour's phone home option?

[Robin Gareus]

On 07/14/2015 12:33 AM, Emanuele Rusconi wrote:
> On 14 July 2015 at 00:16, Paul Davis <paul at linuxaudiosystems.com> wrote:
>> knowing that somebody starts ardour somewhere in the world every 3.4
>> minutes is fairly encouraging.
> :)
> 
> It would be interesting to see some statistics, or maybe they're
> already somewhere and I missed them?
> 

https://community.ardour.org/ping_stats  (takes a while to load and
crunch data -- just goes to show that nobody bothered optimizing
data-mining for statistics).

Take it with a huge gain of salt: Providers in some countries rotate IPs
every 24h, ping-back for windows started only 2 days ago, most linux
distros use --no-phone-home, debian gathers popularity instead:
https://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=ardour3


One thing that I'd be interested in (which is currently not available)
is rollout speed of updates, in order to answer the question if it make
sense to aim for roughly monthly minor releases.
 "How many users run old version N weeks after a new release?"


There's also http://nightly.ardour.org/stats/ which is only based on
download filename and shows that there is interest by users who can't
[or don't want to] build themselves to either help testing or use
versions with specific bug-fixes.

anyway, happy stats interpretation,
robin