[csw-maintainers] Packages age

[William Bonnet]

Hi Phil
> On Wed, Mar 04, 2009 at 10:03:14PM +0100, William Bonnet wrote:
>   
>> Year    Total      Delta
>> 1997      1          0
>> 1998      1          0
>> 2001      3          0
>> 2002      4          0
>> 2003     25         -1
>> 2004    107          0
>> 2005    176         -3
>> 2006    200         -2
>> 2007    188        -11
>> 2008    386        -28
>> 2009    142        +78
>>     
>
> it's not clear to me what these numbers are. could you explain a different
> way, please?
>
> not clear what "total" is.
> total what?
>   
Total is the number of packages created in a given year. This is based 
on the creation date from the ,REV= field
Delta is the difference between current month (Feb) and previous one 
(Jan). This is not a yearly based delta.

As you can notice the number of package is below the actual number of 
packages. The reason is that some packages do not include 
",REV=yyyy.mm.dd" field in the name.

I'll move soon to another method of statistic which will be more 
accurate. But since it measure only delta from a month to another, total 
number of packages is not so important ( yes it is of course ;) ) 
because recent packages have ,REV field.

Cheers
W.

PS: Until this month i was used to send this report to devel list, i 
moved it to maintainer list to reach more people. But i won't let send 
it out of maintainers (unless board ask me to ;) ).

-- 
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