On 12/19/06, Luis Villa <luis@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 12/19/06, Matt Domsch <matt@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, Dec 19, 2006 at 12:46:49AM -0500, Christopher Blizzard wrote: > > I just noticed that we passed through the 5k packages mark in extras. > > Kinda neat - seems to be continuing to slowly grow. :D > > well, 2500 (exactly) SRPMS, but yes, quite an accomplishment. I know this is sort of a bogus stat, but has anyone considered graphing this growth against the growth of debian and opensuse? One of the big criticisms of fedora/RH was always that, compared to debian and suse, there were many fewer centrally packaged programs which could be relied upon to cleanly install and run, so it seems like showing that Fedora is growing in this respect would be a nice marketing point.
Personally I think it would be a very bogus stat as one thing I have heard over and over again is that Fedora Extras is not to be a dumping ground. Quality is always important over quantity, and the people who make the biggest case for this have been burned in the past by other Cookers/Extras/etc. However, these are subjective like what is a good wine and hard to graph without making it a "My Flag is bigger than yours.." vs "Oh well my Flag has better values than yours" type debate. The items I have heard over and over for Extras is that People who package up something should not just be someone who knows how to do some tar commands, but should be taking responsibility for the care and maintenance of the package. They should know the code well enough to be able to patch it or at least get a working patch from the maintainer on a problem. -- Stephen J Smoogen. -- CSIRT/Linux System Administrator How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world. = Shakespeare. "The Merchant of Venice" _______________________________________________ fedora-advisory-board mailing list fedora-advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-advisory-board _______________________________________________ fedora-advisory-board-readonly mailing list fedora-advisory-board-readonly@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-advisory-board-readonly
