Re: binary package counters
On Tue, Apr 30, 2002 at 12:19:53PM -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/
>
> Yes, exactly Matt, this would be the (primary?) source for the data, yet
> some aren't included such as the hurd-i386.
Actually, if I remember the last DWN correctly, right now hurd-i386 doesn't
have any files, they changed their ABI and went down to 0 :)
> I have a hard time finding the actual summary numbers I'm suggesting, so I
> wanted to present this data in a clear and easily readable way. Again, we
> already do this on the home page but I don't know
>
> a) what's included in 3950?
Debian, the main, stable distribution.
> b) 3950 as of what date?
potato... point releases don't make this number fluctuate enough to warrant
any update, I'd think, so it's simply hardcoded.
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