[arch-general] [arch-dev-public] pkgstats and repo cleanup

[Grigorios Bouzakis]

On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 8:16 AM, Allan McRae <allan.mcrae at qimr.edu.au> wrote:
> Hi devs,
>
> I have created a table of candidates for removal from the extra repo based
> on <1% usage in the pkgstats results.  I have gone through and flagged for
> keeping packages which are i18n, makedepends, or otherwise needed (in pacman
> testsuite, using on gerolde).  See the list here:
> http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/User:Allan/Extra_Repo_and_Pkgstats
>
> There is probably other categories of packages we should keep (e.g drivers)
> and there are some fonts which might be considered i18n related so can you
> all go through the list a cross out the ones to be kept and giving the
> reason.
>
> In a couple of weeks time I will remove all the orphaned packages remaining
> on that list and contact the maintainers of the rest so they can decide what
> to do with their packages.
>
> Cheers,
> Allan

Hi Alan,
Can i give some other extend to this?
I can understand why you limit the list to only packages with 0.xy
usage, but i think
theres much more to cleanup than just those packages. Orphan or not..
Just by looking at the statistics, for which we owe a huge thanks to
Pierre, its obvious
that more than 50% of the packages in extra have 10% or less usage.
Most of which
are below 5%.
While at the same time there are many packages in community with >10%. Those
should definately go in extra. Most of the developers use em too.
Also , many packages in extra, some of which are long unmaintained
upstream, many
multimedia & games packages come to mind but not limited to these.
Those could go to community and even be left unmaintained with a small
portion of
good will.
Anyway, all i am saying is dont focus only on packages having 0.xy usage.

Greg