Re: How to measure stability?

[Hugo Vanwoerkom <hvw59601@care2.com>]

James Westby wrote:
> On (16/09/06 18:51), Bruno Buys wrote:
> >     Is there any way to objectively measure stability among debian
> > flavours? I mean, does anybody know of a webpage or project or something
> > to build statistics on bug reports? I'm asking this because every now
> > and then we have threads asking how much unstable unstable is, and the
> > replies are always like 'depends', or 'your mileage may vary' and such.
> >     If a there's a good soul somewhere keeping statistics of broken
> > stuff and bugs grouped by packages and flavours, I'd  REALLY like to see it.
>
> How about this project? 
>
> http://brion.inria.fr/anla/index
>
> edos has a utility for checking for uninstallable packages very quickly.
> edos-debcheck is the package name I believe. 
>
> They are using it to generate statistics for the Debian archives. They
> use a weather motif to indicate how many packages are uninstallable at
> present. For instance here is the past performance of unstable 
>
> http://brion.inria.fr/anla/health?bundle=U&architecture=i386

Interesting. But this should be weighted by the popularity of the 
package. E.g. if xpaint is broken, so what, but if xorg is broken, disaster.

H



> compared with testing
>
> http://brion.inria.fr/anla/health?bundle=T&architecture=i386
>
> It doesn't work on bug reports as you wanted, but it can give an idea
> about how badly unstable is currently broken with regard to
> installation.
>
> Or how about the number of RC bug reports against sid and etch? Gives
> some impression of how close to release etch is, although it has it's
> problems.
>
> http://bugs.debian.org/release-critical/graph.png
>
> James