Scientific software rating
Hi,
Andreas Tille <tillea@rki.de> (2007-07-19 15:44:07) :
> when I had my talk about Debian-Science at LSM in Amiens:
>
> http://people.debian.org/~tille/talks/200707_lsm_science
>
> the discussion brought up some intersting points that might be interesting
> for all CDDs
>
> Jannick Patois proposed a categorisation of quality. It might be reasonable
> to find simple objective numbers. Here is a summary of Jannick's points
> (with some additions and hints from myself):
>
> - number of users (could be obtained from popularity contest)
> - number of lines of codes (could be calculated at package building time)
> - version number (obvious, but should be put on a general stats page)
> - number of authors / written by a credited institute / used in
> publications
> --> duty of documentation of the maintainer
> - date of last version
> --> duty of documentation of the maintainer
> - number of related mailing list and frequency of postings
>
> There are several possibilities to store this information that might
> give users a clue about the value of a certain package. Probably the
> best way would be a tag in the control file but this will probably
> not be accepted soon. Perhaps a first shot could be a section in
> README.Debian of the package.
With respect to software rating, maybe could we settle (with a
different aim) something similar to this:
http://wiki.debian.org/OpenRating/
http://wiki.debian.org/OpenRating/Categories
> Something, that leaded into this direction is Francescos DebianGis
> Thermometer under
>
> http://pkg-grass.alioth.debian.org/debiangis-status.html
>
> Francesco, where can the code for this can be found?
> I would regard this a s a really valuable tool for all Custom
> Debian Distributions.
There is also something similar:
http://svnbuildstat.debian.net/repositorys/list
Best regards,
Frédéric Lehobey
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