I finally managed to generate graphs to visualize the evolution of Lintian tags. This has been in my TODO for a long time: I think I already mentioned it last year during GSoC.
The code is actually pretty straightforward. The current, experimental version works without Lintian: it consists of a simple Perl script (which somehow resembles reporting/html_reports) to read lintian.log files and store statistics into data files. A Makefile is then used to invoke gnuplot and generate the graphs. I have been running it for the last few days, and the first graphs are already available, including per-tag[1] (e.g. unstripped-binary-or-object[2]) and global statistics[3]. Note that it is still a work in progress, and some graphs may not be entirely accurate compared to the Lintian Tags page[4]. I think it would be a good idea to display the graphs at lintian.d.o, but I'm not sure how: integrating it into lintian/reporting, or running it as an external service (e.g. cron job on alioth.d.o). Any thoughts? 1. http://people.alioth.debian.org/~jorda-guest/lintian/graph/tags/ 2. http://people.alioth.debian.org/~jorda-guest/lintian/graph/tags/unstripped-binary-or-object.svg 3. http://people.alioth.debian.org/~jorda-guest/lintian/graph/stats.svg 4. http://lintian.debian.org/tags.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
