Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo activity graphs

2006-07-08 Thread Marco Matthies
Alin Nastac wrote: I find active devs metric a useful one.Until a year ago, the number of active devs was linearly rising, but in last year we seem to hit a ceil (175) - either recruiter team is understaffed or our organization reached the maximum number of individuals who can work together

[gentoo-dev] Gentoo activity graphs

2006-07-07 Thread Alin Nastac
Every now and then someone get sick of Gentoo and suddenly became prophet, preaching that the end of the distro is near. I wanted to see how much should we worry about it so I've made a perl script to find the history of the following characteristics: - no. of active developers (active dev := did

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo activity graphs

2006-07-07 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Fri, 07 Jul 2006 21:34:49 +0300 Alin Nastac [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | I am aware those characteristics are quantitative and don't say | anything about the quality of the distribution. They're also somewhat skewed, given all the modular ebuilds people are making of late... -- Ciaran McCreesh

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo activity graphs

2006-07-07 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Fri, 2006-07-07 at 19:49 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Fri, 07 Jul 2006 21:34:49 +0300 Alin Nastac [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | I am aware those characteristics are quantitative and don't say | anything about the quality of the distribution. They're also somewhat skewed, given all the

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo activity graphs

2006-07-07 Thread Chris Bainbridge
On 07/07/06, Alin Nastac [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am aware those characteristics are quantitative and don't say anything about the quality of the distribution. However, judging after those graphs, even the worst basher will recognize that we are far from being dead. It may be a better

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo activity graphs

2006-07-07 Thread Kevin F. Quinn
On Fri, 7 Jul 2006 20:53:12 +0100 Chris Bainbridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 07/07/06, Alin Nastac [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am aware those characteristics are quantitative and don't say anything about the quality of the distribution. However, judging after those graphs, even the

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo activity graphs

2006-07-07 Thread Alin Nastac
Chris Bainbridge wrote: It may be a better metric to look at the bugzilla stats. How has the number of bugs being filed changed? What ratio of filed bugs are resolved, vs the ones that are left open? bugs.gentoo.org has some facilities for graphing stats back to December 2005... Bugzilla