Re: Ranking of the worst maintainers
On Tue, Nov 02, 2004 at 04:37:25PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote:
> Eduard Bloch wrote:
> > http://people.debian.org/~blade/pranger/ranking.html
> I seems to me that by these metrics the "best" way to contribute to
> Debian is to find something extremely obscure that has 1 user (you, or
> perhaps your cat), and a dead upstream, and package it, possibly with a
> description like "this package is experimental, not very useful, takes
> six months to learn, and you should use bar instead". You then get 0
> bugs and rise right to the bottom of the list.
True. That list looks to me like the list of the most used packages
(dpkg, mount and glibc at the top...) By taking popcon.debian.org
statistics into account, the list will probably look quite a bit
different. It still won't take in account the work done by maintainers
going through great pains to maintain something braindead upstream,
or something massively complex like d-i and X.
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