Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, Aug 22, 2005 at 06:59:52AM -0500, John Hasler wrote: >> Andreas Jochens writes: >> Wouter Verhelst wrote: >> > - must have successfully compiled 98% of the archive's source (excluding >> > arch-specific packages) > >> Andreas Jochens writes: >> > It is not possible to build 98% of the unmodified source packages from >> > the 'unstable' distribution. This is true for any port including i386. > >> Make it 98% of the packages buildable on the accepted port with the highest >> build percentage. > >> How was 98% arrived at? > > It's an arbitrary line, but then, any such line would have to be drawn at an > arbitrary point. Requiring 100% is unrealistic, because it would give > porters a perverse incentive to argue for per-architecture exclusion of > packages; relaxing the percentage to a lower number gives us the situation > we had in sarge, where too much time was spent waiting on one architecture > or another for updates to testing. > > I certainly think that the metric needs to take into account > Packages-arch-specific. None of the statistics we have available today are > quite right; I think they're all either "percent built of all packages this > arch has ever built", which doesn't account for archs not keeping up with > new packages, or "percent built of all packages we have source for", which > penalizes ports unnecessarily for the upload of non-portable sources.
They also contain removed packages, non-free packages that should be arch specific (but nobody cares because they aren't autobuild anyway) and Not-for-us packages. I think even P-a-s packages. Doing a count yourself you can get >10% divergence from the buildd.d.o stats depending what you count exactly. So before any line should be drawn someone should define a correct counting method and generate at least a month worth of stats to see what would be a reasonable first try for a line. > -- > Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS > Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. > [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/ MfG Goswin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]