hottest100 (was Re: Bazaar focus for 2.1 and 2.2)

[Jonathan Lange]

On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 1:53 PM, Martin Pool <mbp at canonical.com> wrote:
> 2010/1/8 Jonathan Lange <jml at canonical.com>:
>> On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 1:01 PM, Martin Pool <mbp at canonical.com> wrote:
>>> 2010/1/8 James Westby <jw+debian at jameswestby.net>:
>>>> On Fri, 8 Jan 2010 10:58:04 +1100, Martin Pool <mbp at canonical.com> wrote:
>> ...
>>>> This does raise other questions in my mind. Are we excluding some
>>>> packages before we really start?
>>>
>>> I don't know.  I guess we only would be if the top 100 list was not
>>> actually the 100 most important packages.  I'm not actually sure where
>>> that list comes from.
>>>
>>
>> https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+upstreamreport
>
> I guess I meant "I don't know how it's defined" but
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream/UpstreamReport does actually
> define it: top 100 by number of open bugs.  So it will vary over time,
> and it's also plausible that these are amongst the most interesting
> packages in Ubuntu.  It might be interesting to measure the most
> popular packages in ppas, but this will do for now.
>

To avoid the moving target problem, I've hardcoded the database IDs of
the top 100 in the queries I've pasted, and also in the lpstats graph.

jml