Re: Visualizing debian releases

2002-10-27 Thread Johan Ehnberg
As far as I know, sarge was born as woody released. It was an identical copy. So the branching is wrong or misleading. Am I right? And I'd like to give a really easy-to-understand picture. What I'm looking for is perhaps more general: - Not release specific -> No updates required -> Works as a

Re: Visualizing debian releases

2002-10-27 Thread Auke Jilderda
I like the idea. I presume the X-axis is time and Y is number of packages (functionality). The picture seems correct to me, would be good to quantify both axis with the real data (the number of packages and release dates can relatively easily be backtracked, I bet). Another interesting thing to

Re: Visualizing debian releases

2002-10-27 Thread J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)
On Sun, Oct 27, 2002 at 18:32:20 +0100, J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) wrote: > I suspect the following may be a bit clearer: Hmm... looks like an eight-bit character I used got dropped silently. Let's try again, now with clean ASCII... sid--- \

Re: Visualizing debian releases

2002-10-27 Thread J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)
On Sun, Oct 27, 2002 at 18:30:12 +0200, Johan Ehnberg wrote: > To present how the different debian releases are related, I'd like to > visualize with a graph. The graph represents package versions (and > overall functionality): I suspect the following may be a bit clearer: sid--

Visualizing debian releases

2002-10-27 Thread Johan Ehnberg
Hi! I'd like to share some thoughts with you: I work with people and computers, and I've come to like debian most of the linux dists. So what I do (and would like to do even more) is bring linux to users who havent seen (or even heard about!) linux before. To present how the different debian re