Helping MOTU Team: UUS project

[Emil Oppeln-Bronikowski]

  Hi there.

  Since I had some spare time on my hands, I decited to help (or 
support) MOTU-Team. My Package-Foo is weak, so I did something else than 
packaging. A small script that can bring some useful data for MOTU. I hope.

  Few days ago someone (Ubuntu developer, I think) asked me on the 
Ubuntu-users what packages from Universe are installed on my Hoary 
server. I replyed that I'll do the list and then, I realized I don't 
know all of them. Today I saw another thread about PHP-MySQL being out 
of Main (ie. may not get security updates). It was a time for action. ;-)

  Using package lists from archive.ubuntu.com (and grep;-) I've created 
text files with a packages names. Then I created an SQL database and a 
script that will import data from text files. After I got a database 
full of packages I could create a code that would handle users package 
list in dpkg --get-selections format.

  So, now everyone with Hoary can drop thier package list and the 
Universe package will get counted. The highest number of hits makes it a 
  strong candidate for takeover by some skillful MOTU member.

  Yes, I know there's Popularity Contest. I forgot about it while I was 
coding, and then, after I recalled it, I was to VIm-addicted to stop, 
even if all this work was senseless. :-P

  It's not yet polished to the max, but please -- try it and tell me if 
I should drop it and read Debian Maintainers manual again, or should I 
polish it a little bit and pass the URL to the ubunut-users.

  http://bronikowski.com/uus/ (notice: parsing big list can take some 
time, please, don't hit stop button;-))

-- 
  Emil Oppeln-Bronikowski, http://bronikowski.com
  Random order: Work. Sleep. Toilet. Eat.