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

[Jonathan Lange]

On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 8:22 PM, Robert Collins
<robertc at robertcollins.net> wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-11-16 at 19:59 -0600, Jonathan Lange wrote:
>> On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 12:36 AM, Martin Pool <mbp at canonical.com> wrote:
>> > 2009/11/16 Jonathan Lange <jml at canonical.com>:
>> >> Is it? It's certainly not in the official linking table.
>> >
>> > What I mean (and I'm kind of speculating here) is that many packages
>> > have the same source package name as their Launchpad project name, or
>> > what should be their project name if it were registered.  They also
>> > have some Debian metadata that could be used to match them up.
>> >
>>
>> Yeah, we might want to take an approach like this. I've talked to Tom
>> about it in person and he's speculated along those lines.
>
> I suspect we have /much/ more data than the current not-a-metric metric
> shows, and we should get that data :)
>

I'll gladly take pointers on how.

jml