[csw-maintainers] Assessing catalog quality

[William Bonnet]

Hi

Some of the indicators you mention already exist. I provide the url in 
the rest of the message. Let me know if you need to summarize all this 
under a specific "catalog qa page"

> Positive measures could include:
>    New package submission - Count of packages that didn't previously exist
>    Updated packages           - Count of packages that increment their
> version number
These are available from : http://www.opencsw.org/get-it/package-statistics/
It's a monthly view


> Negative measure could include:
>    Patched packages           - Count of packages submitted that didn't
> increment their version number
Pretty much easy to compute (taking in account what is already done)
> Neutral but interesting stats could include:
>    Number of gar managed packages       - new or updated packages managed by gar
>    Number of non-gar managed packages - new or updated packages from
> outside of gar
This is available from http://www.opencsw.org/qa/

This page provides several link to the different catagories. You will 
find the detailled list of data and instant values. I started to created 
some statistics based upon these data. I can push it son now that there 
are some data to display :)

>    -- These speaks to quality if one accepts that packages built and
> maintained through gar are both easier to update and/or takeover
>    Number of package takeovers              - indicative of the
> stability of the maintainer-ship
It's not too difficult to implement
> Other non-catalog stats to report
>    Track / Report post counts to the various mailing lists  -
> indicative of the vibrancy of the various constituencies
>    Wiki updates (Gar/OpenCSW)                                   -
> indicative of readily available documentation
>    OpenCSW site updates                                            -
> indicative of the freshness of the site
Existing solution does not cover this. It does not mean it cannot be 
done nor it's a bad idea :P It just mean it has tobe done ;)

Cheers
W.

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William                     http://www.wbonnet.net

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