Re: Group up orphaned packages in order to find adopter faster

2008-10-28 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 5:12 AM, Andreas Tille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yes, I have seen these nice tools and I'm thinking about this. But I really > hope that the ideas to maintain screenshots more generally inside Debian > (there were several suggestions on the lists - but no implementation

Re: Group up orphaned packages in order to find adopter faster

2008-10-28 Thread Andreas Tille
On Tue, 28 Oct 2008, Enrico Zini wrote: No, not just tags: Xapian has features to compute similarity based on whatever you index: you can put popcon into the mix, or dependencies, or keywords from /usr/share/{doc,man}, or whatever really. Shame on you that you did not reported about this in Ma

Re: Group up orphaned packages in order to find adopter faster

2008-10-28 Thread Enrico Zini
On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 02:57:09PM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: > On Tue, 28 Oct 2008, Enrico Zini wrote: >> You bet. You can do it by looking for packages with similar tags, or >> clustering them according to similarity in the description. Or both. > Ahh, detecting similarities based on tags - su

Re: Group up orphaned packages in order to find adopter faster

2008-10-28 Thread Andreas Tille
On Tue, 28 Oct 2008, Enrico Zini wrote: You bet. You can do it by looking for packages with similar tags, or clustering them according to similarity in the description. Or both. Ahh, detecting similarities based on tags - sure, what else should I have expected if it was code from Enrico. ;-)

Re: Group up orphaned packages in order to find adopter faster

2008-10-28 Thread Enrico Zini
On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 11:43:51AM +0100, Emanuele Rocca wrote: > On 28/10 08:57, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > > Enrico Zini have ad for a while some code which find package > > similarities, in fact I believe it is the one used on > > packages.debian.org to show "similar packages". > Probably that

Re: Group up orphaned packages in order to find adopter faster

2008-10-28 Thread Enrico Zini
On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 09:50:28AM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: > On Tue, 28 Oct 2008, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: >> Enrico Zini have ad for a while some code which find package >> similarities, in fact I believe it is the one used on >> packages.debian.org to show "similar packages". > H, what

Re: [OT] Re: announce pure blends (Re: Group up orphaned packages in order to find adopter faster

2008-10-28 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Andreas, On Tuesday 28 October 2008 11:39, Andreas Tille wrote: > Yes, we can and we will have. I just need some time for recovering > from offline backlog - I hope to get something out at the weekend. Great. > BTW, isn't this off topic at debian-qa? eh, yes. I replied on debian-custom, str

[OT] Re: announce pure blends (Re: Group up orphaned packages in order to find adopter faster

2008-10-28 Thread Andreas Tille
On Tue, 28 Oct 2008, Holger Levsen wrote: If this has left the state of discussion and has become a fact, can we have a mail on d-d-a about this please?! Yes, we can and we will have. I just need some time for recovering from offline backlog - I hope to get something out at the weekend. BTW,

Re: Group up orphaned packages in order to find adopter faster

2008-10-28 Thread Emanuele Rocca
On 28/10 08:57, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > Enrico Zini have ad for a while some code which find package > similarities, in fact I believe it is the one used on > packages.debian.org to show "similar packages". Probably that code is based on tagcoll, see 'related' in tagcoll(1). -- To UNSUBSCRI

announce pure blends (Re: Group up orphaned packages in order to find adopter faster

2008-10-28 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Tuesday 28 October 2008 09:50, Andreas Tille wrote: > ...Debian Pure Blends (formerly known as Custom Debian > Disrtibutions) If this has left the state of discussion and has become a fact, can we have a mail on d-d-a about this please?! regards, Holger pgpYLPycRAhBp.pgp Desc

Re: Group up orphaned packages in order to find adopter faster

2008-10-28 Thread Jeremiah C. Foster
> On Mon, 27 Oct 2008 18:04:06 +0100, Sandro Tosi wrote: > > > - trying to partition this list in different subset, to facilitate the > > adoption by people/team intested in a specific category of packages > > An example of its output is in attach, run minutes before sending this > > email, just t

Re: Group up orphaned packages in order to find adopter faster

2008-10-28 Thread Andreas Tille
On Tue, 28 Oct 2008, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: Enrico Zini have ad for a while some code which find package similarities, in fact I believe it is the one used on packages.debian.org to show "similar packages". H, what means "similar packages"? I really can not imagine some code that detec

Re: Group up orphaned packages in order to find adopter faster

2008-10-28 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 06:04:06PM +0100, Sandro Tosi wrote: > - trying to partition this list in different subset, to facilitate the > adoption by people/team intested in a specific category of packages Enrico Zini have ad for a while some code which find package similarities, in fact I believe i