[Slackbuilds-users] Who's maintaining how many

[Pierre Cazenave]

On 17/08/2010 16:00, Ben Mendis wrote:
> It's amazing. It looks like it would probably be an exponential
> curve.
>
> @Android/Gmail: To be fair Gmail does a good job of folding quoted
> text so it's not much of a problem unless you're using a non-Google
> mail reader...and who would dare to do something crazy like that?
>
> On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 10:54 AM, JK Wood<joshuakwood at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> For some, I imagine it's easier than others - I don't maintain
>> anything with a ridiculous dependency chain I also have to
>> maintain.
>>
>> Also, sorry for top-posting - blame the Android gmail app team.
>>
>> On Aug 17, 2010 9:49 AM, "Binh Nguyen"<binhnguyen at fastmail.fm>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Just curious among maintainers who's maintaining the largest
>> packages, I issued this command on my local SBo (get them with
>> rsync)
>>
>> find SBo/13.1/ -name "*.info" -exec grep -H 'MAINTAINER' {} \; |
>> cut -d= -f2 | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr>  maintainers.txt
>>
>> and the result
>>
>> http://pastebin.com/qF6k366M
>>
>> It's amazing that some guys like Robby and Erik can maintain over
>> 100 packages! How could they manage to keep track of all their
>> packages?
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
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I put the data in Calc and got it to run its (probably sketchy) 
regression. It wouldn't fit an exponential curve, but the power curve 
worked nicely, though gave an odd equation: 758.68x^-1.17 (negative 
power makes sense, since it's a decreasing function). The correlation 
coefficient (r) is 0.97 in this instance, which is pretty damned good.

I've attached the figure, for those that way inclined.

Pierre
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