Things to graph for package-of-the-day work

[Jonathan Lange]

On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 12:02 AM, Jonathan Lange <jml at canonical.com> wrote:
> We at the Bazaar sprint have brainstormed a few things that we think
> that we should graph to see how the package-of-the-day stuff is being
> used on Launchpad, and to see how we should focus our work.
>
...
>
> 1. Packages with upstream imports
>  - Number of packages (maybe in an interesting subset)

Packages in Lucid main: 16143
Packages in Karmic main: 16217

>  - Number of these packages with upstream links

lucid: 16
karmic: 340

>  - Number of packages that have upstream links that have trunk branches

lucid: 9
karmic: 230

>  - Number of packages that have upstream links that have trunk
> branches that work
>

lucid: 9
karmic: 223

I've posted the queries to the Launchpad developer list. I'll
endeavour to have a graph up soon.

The massive disparity between the number of packages and the number of
packages with links makes me think we need to:

 a) rethink the details of this particular goal (look under the
streetlight, so to speak)
 b) rethink the way we're gathering data
 c) make package / product linking way better.

jml