[Slackbuilds-users] Who's maintaining how many

[Nishant Limbachia]

On 08/17/2010 11:09 AM, Niels Horn wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 12:14 PM, Pierre Cazenave <pwcazenave at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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,
>>>>
>>>> -- Binh Nguyen _______________________________________________
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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
>>
> 
> I keep track of SlackBuilds I maintain basically with:
> - freshmeat
> - subscribing lists
> - using a spreadsheet with the name of the package, homepage, etc. and
> the date I checked last for updates. This sheet contains a formula
> "warning" me if I haven't checked a program for more than a month.
> 
> Right now I'm behind schedule with several updates, due to a
> more-than-heavy workload at my "real" job... But I'll catch up again
> :)
> 
> (btw, surprised I ended up in ninth place!)
> 
> Niels
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Pretty much what Niels does with his slackbuilds (freshmeat, mailing
lists).  However, I don't maintain a spreadsheet.  I use most of the
slackbuilds I maintain so I check for new versions from time to
time...may be once a month or so :)

-Nishant