Re: how many users is too few

2002-03-12 Thread Radovan Garabik
On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 02:50:41PM +1300, Corrin Lakeland wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi all, > > I've got a package (gtkgo) that has been discontinued upstream. So far I've > been ignoring this and continuing to apply fixes, etc. But I'm beginning to > wonder

Re: how many users is too few

2002-03-12 Thread Radovan Garabik
On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 02:50:41PM +1300, Corrin Lakeland wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi all, > > I've got a package (gtkgo) that has been discontinued upstream. So far I've > been ignoring this and continuing to apply fixes, etc. But I'm beginning to > wonder

Re: how many users is too few

2002-03-11 Thread Colin Walters
On Mon, 2002-03-11 at 20:50, Corrin Lakeland wrote: > I had a look on popularity contest and that said it had 7 recent users. You have to keep in mind that the popularity-contest is almost certainly not a representative sample of our users. So it is likely that more than 7 people use it. > I'

Re: how many users is too few

2002-03-11 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
> I've stopped using it myself, but it is extremely easy to maintain so I don't > really mind maintaining it. > popularity-contest is not to be trusted. People have to opt-in. This last statement of your is the important one. The rule in Debian is we package what we use. When that cardinal

how many users is too few

2002-03-11 Thread Corrin Lakeland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, I've got a package (gtkgo) that has been discontinued upstream. So far I've been ignoring this and continuing to apply fixes, etc. But I'm beginning to wonder if I should ITA it since maintained packages are starting to incorporate its fun

Re: how many users is too few

2002-03-11 Thread Colin Walters
On Mon, 2002-03-11 at 20:50, Corrin Lakeland wrote: > I had a look on popularity contest and that said it had 7 recent users. You have to keep in mind that the popularity-contest is almost certainly not a representative sample of our users. So it is likely that more than 7 people use it. > I

Re: how many users is too few

2002-03-11 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
> I've stopped using it myself, but it is extremely easy to maintain so I don't > really mind maintaining it. > popularity-contest is not to be trusted. People have to opt-in. This last statement of your is the important one. The rule in Debian is we package what we use. When that cardinal

how many users is too few

2002-03-11 Thread Corrin Lakeland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, I've got a package (gtkgo) that has been discontinued upstream. So far I've been ignoring this and continuing to apply fixes, etc. But I'm beginning to wonder if I should ITA it since maintained packages are starting to incorporate its fu