Re: quality of a package
On Fri, Jan 26, 2001 at 03:21:41PM -0500, Peter S Galbraith wrote:
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> Matt Zimmerman wrote:
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> > On Sat, Jan 27, 2001 at 03:56:07AM +0800, zhaoway wrote:
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> > > I saw on package.d.o there is a quality percentage for each package. Would
> > > you tell me how it counts? bug reports + lintian errors?
> >
> > Those numbers have nothing to do with the quality of the
> > package; they refer to the quality of the search result (a
> > score based on your search parameters).
Wow, I never knew that!
I have always assumed (as did "zhaoway") that the "quality"
reflected something about the package, not about the search.
> Yeah, and they should be fixed or removed! ;-)
Agreed.
At the very least, a single sentence at the top of the page
that says "quality refers to the search, not the package"
would be welcomed. Even better if the webmasters can find
a blurb from the search engine that describes how it measures
"search quality".
Cc'd to the webmaster, in hopes that someone who can fix this
will eventually read this email ...
-Steve
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