Quoting Paul Wise (2022-03-28 04:27:48) > On Sun, 2022-03-27 at 18:05 +0200, Jonathan Carter wrote: > > Last I spoke to you, I think you also said that you don't have much > > time to work on this anymore, and that the distro census is probably > > going to die down. Is this still the status? Do you think it can be > > saved? We probably have quite a wide audience here, do you think > > it's worth another shot to get people involved to work on it? > > The census has been turned off for years. It is too much work for one > person to do on their own. I don't have motivation or time or ability > to do it alone any more. I have tried to recruit other folks to work > on both the social and technical sides of it. I had an Outreachy > intern that did some great work. I had some interest in contributing > from both DDs and non-DDs but the interest didn't result in the sort > of ongoing contributions that are needed. I've had encouragement for > keeping the census around from a couple of folks though. I'm also not > sure the Debian community thinks the approach is correct or even > useful to Debian itself and also for derivatives themselves; the > mailing list and IRC channel are mostly silent for years. There are > also some solvable technical flaws that mean the census cron can't be > turned back on right now, and the motivation issues block fixing them.
I guess that by "The census" you mean the code to compute the delta between Debian and each of its derivatives. I think the census is useful both to Debian itself and to derivatives. Sadly I suspect that too few are aware of it, despite your promotion, Paul. Help getting the census scripts back on track requires Python skills. - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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