Re: vanity packages (was: mentors.debian.net reloading)

2007-10-29 Thread Jack T Mudge III
On Sunday 28 October 2007 07:10:57 pm Paul Wise wrote: > On 10/29/07, The Fungi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I would consider its popularity low (187 popcon installs with 46 > > votes). > > I consider such fringe packages to be the main benefit of using > Debian. That is; it is the diversity (or

Re: vanity packages (was: mentors.debian.net reloading)

2007-10-29 Thread Jeremy Stanley
On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 07:44:28AM +, Neil Williams wrote: [...] > I think you have misinterpreted my position. Sponsoring is an > introduction to NM and whether or not the maintainer is looking to join > NM has no effect on the quality of packages at the start of sponsoring. [...] > The "probl

Re: vanity packages (was: mentors.debian.net reloading)

2007-10-29 Thread Joey Hess
Neil Williams wrote: > > I would consider its popularity low (187 popcon installs with 46 > > votes). > > It's not that low. It looks like quite a few people find it useful, so > that's good. Using absolute popcon numbers as indications of a package's popularity isn't the best idea anyway, since

Re: vanity packages (was: mentors.debian.net reloading)

2007-10-28 Thread Neil Williams
On Sun, 28 Oct 2007 22:47:42 + The Fungi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Oct 28, 2007 at 09:19:12PM +, Neil Williams wrote: > [...] > > What kind of popcon score? i.e. does anyone else think it is a useful > > addition? > > I would consider its popularity low (187 popcon installs wit

Re: vanity packages (was: mentors.debian.net reloading)

2007-10-28 Thread Paul Wise
On 10/29/07, The Fungi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I would consider its popularity low (187 popcon installs with 46 > votes). I consider such fringe packages to be the main benefit of using Debian. That is; it is the diversity (or universality) of Debian that is attractive and useful. -- bye,

vanity packages (was: mentors.debian.net reloading)

2007-10-28 Thread The Fungi
On Sun, Oct 28, 2007 at 09:19:12PM +, Neil Williams wrote: [...] > What kind of popcon score? i.e. does anyone else think it is a useful > addition? I would consider its popularity low (187 popcon installs with 46 votes). Admittedly, Russ sponsored it because he said thought he was likely to f