[RT] User poll to find unused components

2006-10-03 Thread Sylvain Wallez
Hi all, Yesterday we had an interesting discussion at the hackathon about how to identify unused components so as to remove/deprecate them in order to cleanup the code base. We cannot consider the last commit date on a component as the measure of its usefulness, as many components are simply

Re: [RT] User poll to find unused components

2006-10-03 Thread Leszek Gawron
Sylvain Wallez wrote: Hi all, Yesterday we had an interesting discussion at the hackathon about how to identify unused components so as to remove/deprecate them in order to cleanup the code base. We cannot consider the last commit date on a component as the measure of its usefulness, as many

Re: [RT] User poll to find unused components

2006-10-03 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
On 10/3/06, Sylvain Wallez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ...So the idea is to involve users in the process and conduct a poll where they will be able to list the components they use regularly so that we can find those that can be pushed to end-of-life and utimately removed from the distribution...

Re: [RT] User poll to find unused components

2006-10-03 Thread hepabolu
Bertrand Delacretaz said the following on 3/10/06 12:05: On 10/3/06, Sylvain Wallez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ...So the idea is to involve users in the process and conduct a poll where they will be able to list the components they use regularly so that we can find those that can be pushed to

RE: [RT] User poll to find unused components

2006-10-03 Thread Geert Josten
+1 for the blocks, because it simplifies the stay/leave selection. In a later stage the poll can be repeated per block for the individual components. I also suggest to ask for a TOP 5 and create a TOP 10 from that to cater to a larger population. How about letting users classifying

Re: [RT] User poll to find unused components

2006-10-03 Thread Sylvain Wallez
Geert Josten wrote: +1 for the blocks, because it simplifies the stay/leave selection. In a later stage the poll can be repeated per block for the individual components. I also suggest to ask for a TOP 5 and create a TOP 10 from that to cater to a larger population. How about

Re: [RT] User poll to find unused components

2006-10-03 Thread hepabolu
Sylvain Wallez said the following on 3/10/06 13:26: Geert Josten wrote: +1 for the blocks, because it simplifies the stay/leave selection. In a later stage the poll can be repeated per block for the individual components. I also suggest to ask for a TOP 5 and create a TOP 10 from that to