On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 10:55:33AM +1100, Bradley Baetz wrote: > Josh Boyer wrote: > >> >> Do we have metrics on 'number of brand new packages going out as updates' >> versus 'existing packages being bumped to new versions'? >> >> If not, how hard would it be to get those? They would be rather important >> to reviewing this idea at a FESCo level. > > I actually modified repodiff yesterday to look at the version string to > work out what the change was (see attached). > > F9 -> F9+updates: > > Added Packages: 831 > Removed Packages: 0 (0 obsoleted) > Modified Packages: 1608 > Major changes: 390 > Minor changes: 764 > Release changes: 445 > Release tag changes: 9 Very interesting. And to clarify, Modified Packages does not include the packages in Added Packages, right? > F9+updates -> F10+updates: > > Added Packages: 258 > Removed Packages: 105 (0 obsoleted) > Modified Packages: 4039 > Major changes: 457 > Minor changes: 673 > Release changes: 1334 > Release tag changes: 1575 For the purpose of this discussion, this data set isn't really relevant. Good info in general though. > F10 -> F10+updates: > > Added Packages: 134 > Removed Packages: 0 (0 obsoleted) > Modified Packages: 396 > Major changes: 61 > Minor changes: 202 > Release changes: 132 > Release tag changes: 1 And I find this to be a bit scary. 134 new packages have gone into F10 in 2 weeks via updates?? > This is using the Everything repo as the baseline, and I ran this > yesterday. 'minor' is an update where only the last part of the version > string (after the last .) changed, major is everything else. Its not a > perfect heuristic - looking manually at the list, the major updates are > being over reported a bit. Does "Major" include "Release changes"? > Can someone who wants the new versions immediately explain why they > don't want to wait an average of 3 months for the next fedora release? 6 months (unless you jump on Alpha/Beta). But yeah, good question. josh -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
