Hi, Andreas Tille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
