On Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 07:22:34PM +0100, Bill Allombert wrote: > On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 08:52:21PM +0100, Martin Quinson wrote: > > Yes, what is important to me is that we rank all the source packages. I > > would remove from the ranking the "not in sid" package (or move them to the > > end of the ranking). It's at least the easiest to do. > > > > > 2) How do you define the popularity of source packages ? > > > As the sum of the popularity of each binaries packages ? > > > This is what is used for Maintainers ranking currently. > > > > It makes sense for maintainers, but I would say that for source package, we > > should use the max of all achieved ranking. I'd say that it's the metric > > which would help the translators looking for which package to translate. I'm > > not completely sure, in fact. Doing 2 rankings is also easy, but I'm not > > sure it's worthing our time. > > Hello, I have made a preview here: > <http://people.debian.org/~ballombe/popcon-exp> > Please tell me if anything is broken.
Hello, I didn't find any error during my rapid browsing, but I'm not sure it proves anything... > It use the sum. I could easily change it to use the max, however the > correct way to compute the max would be to read popcon reports directly > and to count the number of thoses that report at least one package > provided by the source package (iow, to merge the reports). [cut a great explanation of why using the max is really harder to implement] > The problem is that the website is build from the anonymized results > for confidentiality. To get correct result here, I would need to add > source packages info to the anonymized results files, and I am not > to keen changing the format of that file. That's prefect. You may want to add a little readme about this on the web site, but I really don't think that it will be an issue for us. Having some kind of indication about the popularity of source package is really a great help for the translators. Thanks for your time, and please keep me posted when this feature arrives into the regular popcon.debian.org so that I can start hacking on the l10n pages. Bye, Mt.
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