Reported installs for the hostmaster project is not 3

The 'Reported installs' for the hostmaster project is 3 (2x D6 and 1x D7) ... which is incorrect .. I alone am running more then that ;)

The hosting project shows 501 installs which could be true. And most of those will have the hostmaster profile.

Other distributions do have more realistic numbers ... so what's wrong?

In the early D6 time we had the update status module disabled by default which explains the limited number of D6 installs.

In Drupal Commons it's listed on admin/reports/update, but not as module in drush pm-list. Hostmaster is listed in neither.

commons.profile:

/**
 * Implements hook_update_projects_alter().
 */
function commons_update_projects_alter(&$projects) {
  // Enable update status for the Commons profile.
  $modules = system_rebuild_module_data();
  // The module object is shared in the request, so we need to clone it here.
  $commons = clone $modules['commons'];
  $commons->info['hidden'] = FALSE;
  _update_process_info_list($projects, array('commons' => $commons), 'module', TRUE);
}

Porting to hostmaster did not make it appear on admin/reports/updates

Could #2750361: Add exclusive and distribution_name info be related? I had it on one dev server for a few weeks which could explain the recent '1' for D7