Anthony Gorecki posted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, excerpted below, on Mon, 12 Sep 2005 01:09:34 -0700:
> On Sunday, September 11, 2005 20:42, Daniel Ahlberg wrote: >> The page shows results from a number of tests that are run against the > ebuilds. > > Why does this script no longer include the results in the actual message? > It was helpful to have both as a reference source. Well, the idea was helpful, but (as an amd64 user) I'm not entirely sure the implementation was all that helpful. The problem was due to the non-x86 "imlate" tracking. Unfortunately, it didn't work right, with the result normally meaning the top-10 spots as listed in the message, were all ~amd64 entries where ~arch (for some arch, normally x86) had been added several hundred days earlier (before there /was/ a Gentoo amd64 arch, AFAIK), because it had no way of tracking when the ~amd64 keyword was added, and incorrectly assumed that the package had been ~amd64 since the package was keyworded ~arch for /one/ arch at that point. As one of the newer and more active archs, just then adding ~arch for the first time to many apps, this was particularly frustrating for amd64, since it left the impression the amd64 arch-team were a bunch of slackers (no offense to slackware folks) that left packages in ~arch for hundreds of days at a time, for little reason. So... if the script now ignores that factor, at least when calculating the top-10, or if it has been fixed to correct the issue (a non-trivial task, someone remarked at one point, because the info wasn't directly available), and assuming there are no other such "spammer factors", it /could/ be /very/ useful. However, personally, at least, I'd /not/ like to see it return in the broken state it was in, as I can't imagine that being anything but frustration, to those responsible for the ebuilds wrongly listed, due to a broken script. (Not that my personal opinion means a lot as "just" a user, on a dev list, but FWIW, whatever /that/ may be.) -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman in http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/12/22/rms_interview.html -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
