On Mon, Apr 29, 2002 at 05:53:37PM -0700, Grant Bowman wrote: > I don't think I've seen anything like it anywhere. I propose creating a > counter page that has number of binary packages available for each > architecture and distribution (stable, testing, unstable). > > Why do this? It may be helpful for newcomers to assess the state of the > projects. For ports this would also be a good measure. While this data > may be available from other sources, newcomers especially may have a > hard time finding it, or may find some information that doesn't have a > date associated with it. > > We already hard-code a number (3950) on the home page. This idea came > from the thought to make it dynamic, probably as a cron job that updates > every day. I don't know how hard this would be, but I'd be willing to > help create it. > > The full page may fit well as a link from /distrib/packages. The buildd statistics page[1] may be pertinent. Matt 1. http://buildd.debian.org/stats/
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