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

[Martin Pool]

2009/11/16 Jonathan Lange <jml at canonical.com>:
>>>> 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
>>
>> So 'upstream links' in this context means just a link from a distro
>> package to a Launchpad product, and from there it may have a link to a
>> trunk branch?
>>
>
> To a Launchpad product series. From there it has a link to a product,
> which then in turn has a link to a product series which has a link to
> a branch.
>
> I'm not sure if this answer actually helps.

It does confirm my tentative understanding was correct.

Then your numbers seem to show that the weakest link in the import
chain may be those upstream links?  And it should be fairly easily
fixed, considering the data to complete say 90% of them is probably
already in the system?

-- 
Martin <http://launchpad.net/~mbp/>