From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Q2Vad-0008To-7v for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 23 Mar 2011 21:27:39 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 56BA41C0CE; Wed, 23 Mar 2011 21:27:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mailout-de.gmx.net (mailout-de.gmx.net [213.165.64.22]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D46A01C0CE for ; Wed, 23 Mar 2011 21:27:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 23 Mar 2011 21:27:21 -0000 Received: from p549BC0D5.dip.t-dialin.net (EHLO [10.0.0.7]) [84.155.192.213] by mail.gmx.net (mp006) with SMTP; 23 Mar 2011 22:27:21 +0100 X-Authenticated: #1855979 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1/mjx9QrO/mR38qWuagrUXhL+zCvYqtasusXFpvWH zMk52gXHeBKZVN Message-ID: <4D8A65BD.6010903@gmx.net> Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2011 22:27:25 +0100 From: Michael Seifert User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.15) Gecko/20110321 Lightning/1.0b3pre Thunderbird/3.1.9 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-soc@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-soc@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-soc@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-soc] GSoC - Package statistics References: <4D87E1AC.1030201@gmx.net> <1300755118.31104.110.camel@big_daddy.dol-sen.ca> <820e13d818f9b5f7452706ff566c7563@basementcode.com> <1300769995.31104.137.camel@big_daddy.dol-sen.ca> <4D893A42.7020308@gmx.net> <1300861806.31104.172.camel@big_daddy.dol-sen.ca> <20110323134937.GB22830@comet.mayo.edu> In-Reply-To: <20110323134937.GB22830@comet.mayo.edu> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1.2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 26a56f7c3b8fa94edc8762abac4e7f66 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Am 23.03.2011 14:49, schrieb Donnie Berkholz: > On 23:30 Tue 22 Mar , Brian Dolbec wrote: >> On Wed, 2011-03-23 at 01:09 +0100, Michael Seifert wrote: >>> I agree that a web-based querying tool/platform would be important. > > I don't think it's critical to the project at all, for it to be useful > to Gentoo developers. As a dev myself, I typically avoid things that > require me to go to websites because it just takes longer. I use CLI > interfaces to bugzilla, I read mailing lists and use text editors in a > terminal, etc. > > I'd like a simple CLI tool that just goes and grabs me the info about a > given package, or shows me overall rankings for certain sets of packages > (depending on specified queries). Perhaps a web-service (using REST or > SOAP) would be more interesting to implement than an actual UI. Then > anyone could tack a web-based UI on later. > > Sure, a webapp might be nice for users, and perhaps for a few devs, but > you could definitely propose a complete project without it. > A web-service without UI sounds like good compromise to me :) What I find a nice idea is that package maintainers can query users to get feedback, as Brian suggested. However the extent of how much the users are bothered should be measured carefully. Nobody wants annoying popups to ask repeatedly about things you don't care much. Does anyone think that some advanced statistics are appreciated, for example calculating package trends or determining correlations? -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk2KZb0ACgkQnzX+Jf4GTUwRhgCguYv47SBBA25aKlIhLCaqnGsa kwUAn05SZmsWBD9SdtXF8Y9P9R49BGAE =KOdk -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----