Fw: RFS: feedgnuplot/1.20 [ITP]

[Dima Kogan <dima@secretsauce.net>]

Hi.

I'm looking for sponsorship for this package. Somebody commented on the
ITP bug saying that this package possibly belongs in Debian Science, so
I'm forwarding the RFS here.

Thanks



Begin forwarded message:

Date: Sat, 01 Sep 2012 01:50:37 -0700
From: Dima Kogan <dima@secretsauce.net>
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>
Subject: RFS: feedgnuplot/1.20 [ITP]


Package: sponsorship-requests
Severity: normal


Hi all.

I am looking for a sponsor for my package "feedgnuplot". This is a
general-purpose tool to construct plots from standard input. It can be
used to plot both realtime and stored data. A trivial example:

$ seq 5 | feedgnuplot

will plot a line. Fancy things are possible. For instance, to make a
real-time plot to measure data incoming on wlan0:

$ while true; do sleep 1; cat /proc/net/dev; done |
  gawk '/wlan0/ {if(b) {print $2-b; fflush()} b=$2}' |
  feedgnuplot --lines --stream --xlen 10 --ylabel 'Bytes/sec' --xlabel
seconds

or to make a histogram of the distribution of the sizes of files
in /tmp:

$ ls -l /tmp | awk '{print $5}' |
  feedgnuplot --histogram 0 --bin 1000000 --curvestyle 0 'with boxes'

I've been using the tool and its package for over a year, and it's now
reasonably stable and well-tested.

License: GPL or Artistic

Upstream homepage: https://github.com/dkogan/feedgnuplot

The ITP bug: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=686413

The mentors page: http://mentors.debian.net/package/feedgnuplot

To get with dget:

dget -x
http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/f/feedgnuplot/feedgnuplot_1.20.dsc


Thanks!

dima