Re: Bug#758116: Please be verbose whether you would like to get your Blend promoted by tasksel
Hi,
On Wed, Sep 03, 2014 at 07:45:12AM +0200, Per Andersson wrote:
>
> I don't think this is a particularly good measure since the blends are
> relatively unknown.
I think it is not a measure for a sequence but rather a measure whether
a Blend should be included or not. For instance I missed
multimedia-tasks in my list (for the simple reason that I have not seen
any relevant commit since nearly one year). But for sure multimedia is
quite important for our users and perhaps the fact that there is a
chance to prominently be shown in the installer might be a motivation
for multimedia maintainers to review the tasks (both team members who
previously commited to Git in CC).
> >> $ curl -s 'http://popcon.debian.org/by_inst' | grep -e '-tasks '
> >> 10053 education-tasks 983 355 448 173 7 (Debian Edu Developers)
> >> 10929 science-tasks 830 76 660 58 36 (Debian Science Team)
> >> 11000 junior-tasks 818 0 0 0 818 (Debian Junior)
> >> 15895 plasma-widget-smooth-tasks 370 71 285 14 0 (Salvo Rinaldi)
> >> 17234 gis-tasks 305 0 0 0 305 (Debian Gis Project)
> >> 17279 med-tasks 304 26 250 11 17 (Debian Med Packaging Team)
> >> 21947 multimedia-tasks 166 0 0 0 166 (Debian Multimedia Maintainers)
> >> 32922 games-tasks 57 0 0 0 57 (Debian Games Team)
> >> 34392 debichem-tasks 50 0 0 0 50 (Debichem Team)
> >> 35076 ezgo-tasks 47 0 0 0 47 (Debain Ezgo Packaging Team)
> >> 41997 tine20-tasks 27 13 11 1 2 (Not in sid)
> >> 69244 site-tasks 5 0 0 0 5 (Not in sid)
> >> 93698 agenda-tasks 1 1 0 0 0 (Not in sid)
> >
> > (column 3 is install count among active popcon users; descending order)
>
> It would also only rate Science, Edu, and Med (in that order) which might be
> good top candidates anyway, but other blends have zero (0) installations
> among active popcon users. So in any case, some ordering except popcon
> install count is necessary.
I'd consider alphabetic ordering as sensible enough. I would not
(mis)use popcon stats as ordering criterion in this case.
> I suppose questions regarding ordering can be: 1) What do we think Debian
> users want to install? 2) Are there any blends in particular good shape?
I think both criterions are not as objective as alphabetic order. Think of
our language selection menu? Should we try to rank it according to the user
base of a certain language or the translation status? I think this gets a
clear "no".
Kind regards
Andreas.
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