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

[James Westby]

On Fri Nov 13 04:28:33 -0600 2009 Martin Pool wrote:
> > 10. Failure modes
> 
> A good place to start would just be "number of succeeded and failed
> builds" per day/week/etc.  This may give us some data about how many
> people are having trouble using the system- cf launchpad-users.  It
> will always be a bit noisy because of actual build failures in the
> upstream branches, but it may show something.  Eventually you could
> look to distinguish how many are failing because of errors in dbuild,
> rejected uploads, depwait, etc.

The failures are still interesting, even if not for people having
difficulties. We would want to know how much work they tend to be
to maintain. We would want to know distributions in particular:
quartiles of number of failures in the last month per-recipe or
similar.

Failures to merge are also interesting in the same way.

Thanks,

James