Re: Very uneven distribution of packages per maintainer

2003-05-27 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 10:40:06PM +0200, Yann Dirson wrote: > Adam wrote: > > So doing bts work is worthless? :) > > Hey, someone once wrote similar scripts to count how many bugreports > were reported by anyone ! Try: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgindex.cgi?indexon=submitter&sortby=coun

Re: Very uneven distribution of packages per maintainer

2003-05-27 Thread Yann Dirson
Adam wrote: > So doing bts work is worthless? :) Hey, someone once wrote similar scripts to count how many bugreports were reported by anyone ! /me rejoices recalling he was ranked 3rd by the number of open bugs :) Well, never mind :) -- Yann Dirson<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |Why make M$-Bil

Re: Very uneven distribution of packages per maintainer

2003-05-26 Thread Michael Banck
On Sat, May 24, 2003 at 09:15:39AM -0400, Ben Collins wrote: > Even that is little indicator. I know folks who's job has nothing to do > with Debian, but they do more work than people who are paid to work on > Debian. It's all about motivation, and no person is doing anything > wrong. It's a person

Re: Very uneven distribution of packages per maintainer

2003-05-25 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: >Packages Developers Looks like a normal distribution curve in gnuplot. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://people.debian.org/~jaq

Re: Very uneven distribution of packages per maintainer

2003-05-24 Thread Adam Heath
On Sat, 24 May 2003, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Fri, May 23, 2003 at 09:48:02PM -0500, Adam Heath wrote: > > On Sat, 24 May 2003, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > > > > The script can't even get everything a Debian Developer does for Debian. > > > While most, if not all, active Debian Developers do pac

Re: Very uneven distribution of packages per maintainer

2003-05-24 Thread Paul Seelig
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Petter Reinholdtsen) writes: > [Tollef Fog Heen] > > So, why do you think having a more even distribution is a good > > thing? > > Because in Debian there is a few people with high "load" in debian, > and many with less "load". > I think this is the wrong way to see it. Since

Re: Very uneven distribution of packages per maintainer

2003-05-24 Thread John Hasler
Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > Because in Debian there is a few people with high "load" in debian, > and many with less "load". People with high load are more likely to > burn out and disappear. Do you have statistics to support that statement? -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancin

Re: Very uneven distribution of packages per maintainer

2003-05-24 Thread Ben Collins
On Sat, May 24, 2003 at 11:25:03PM +1000, Russell Coker wrote: > On Sat, 24 May 2003 22:15, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > > Because in Debian there is a few people with high "load" in debian, > > and many with less "load". People with high load are more likely to > > burn out and disappear. It is

Re: Very uneven distribution of packages per maintainer

2003-05-24 Thread Russell Coker
On Sat, 24 May 2003 22:15, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > Because in Debian there is a few people with high "load" in debian, > and many with less "load". People with high load are more likely to > burn out and disappear. It is thus better to have more people with > less load. > > Of course, the pa

Re: Very uneven distribution of packages per maintainer

2003-05-24 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Fri, May 23, 2003 at 09:48:02PM -0500, Adam Heath wrote: > On Sat, 24 May 2003, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > > The script can't even get everything a Debian Developer does for Debian. > > While most, if not all, active Debian Developers do packaging work, > > there's other stuff to be done -- suc

Re: Very uneven distribution of packages per maintainer

2003-05-24 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Tollef Fog Heen] > So, why do you think having a more even distribution is a good > thing? Because in Debian there is a few people with high "load" in debian, and many with less "load". People with high load are more likely to burn out and disappear. It is thus better to have more people with l

Re: Very uneven distribution of packages per maintainer

2003-05-23 Thread Adam Heath
On Fri, 23 May 2003, Ben Collins wrote: > "Oh no, the Collins family has 2 acres per child...those poor kids! Uh, > you say that 3.5 acres of your yard is a lake?" Dredging. With a snorkel.

Re: Very uneven distribution of packages per maintainer

2003-05-23 Thread Adam Heath
On Sat, 24 May 2003, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > The script can't even get everything a Debian Developer does for Debian. > While most, if not all, active Debian Developers do packaging work, > there's other stuff to be done -- such as taking care of autobuilders, > being a sysadmin, ftp-master, list

Re: Very uneven distribution of packages per maintainer

2003-05-23 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Fri, May 23, 2003 at 05:26:28PM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > > > > Not necessarily -- some packages are a lot of work, like xfree, glibc, > > apache, some are a decent amount of work, like mailman, cvs and some > > are close to zero work, like chrpath and xslide. People also have > > dif

Re: Very uneven distribution of packages per maintainer

2003-05-23 Thread Ben Collins
On Fri, May 23, 2003 at 11:53:05PM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > > I just ran some stats on my APT sources (mostly Woody), and discovered > that the distribution of number of packages per developer is very > uneven. This is the histogram of developers with the specific number > of packages

Re: Very uneven distribution of packages per maintainer

2003-05-23 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Fri, May 23, 2003 at 05:26:28PM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > > So, why do you think having a more even distribution is a good thing? > > Or rather, why is the current situation so bad? > > indeed. Some packages are "worth" 10 "normal" packages in the amount of work > they require. An

Re: Very uneven distribution of packages per maintainer

2003-05-23 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
> > Not necessarily -- some packages are a lot of work, like xfree, glibc, > apache, some are a decent amount of work, like mailman, cvs and some > are close to zero work, like chrpath and xslide. People also have > different amounts of time available -- those who are paid to do Debian > maintaine

Re: Very uneven distribution of packages per maintainer

2003-05-23 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* Petter Reinholdtsen | I suspect a more even distribution of packages per maintainer would be | a good thing. :) I think your stats are wrong, at least they are different from http://www.debian.gr.jp/~kitame/maint.cgi Not necessarily -- some packages are a lot of work, like xfree, glibc, apach

Very uneven distribution of packages per maintainer

2003-05-23 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
I just ran some stats on my APT sources (mostly Woody), and discovered that the distribution of number of packages per developer is very uneven. This is the histogram of developers with the specific number of packages they maintain: Packages Developers 1 239 2 128