[Mageia-sysadm] [321] add progress percent + invitation to help ( links to packaging wiki page)

Wed Jan 19 18:40:11 CET 2011

On Wed, 19 Jan 2011, Romain d'Alverny wrote:
+
+> On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 18:19, Thierry Vignaud
+> <thierry.vignaud at gmail.com> wrote:
+> > On 19 January 2011 18:03,  <root at mageia.org> wrote:
+> >> Revision 321 Author rda Date 2011-01-19 18:03:00 +0100 (Wed, 19 Jan 2011)
+> >>
+> >> Log Message
+> >>
+> >> add progress percent + invitation to help (links to packaging wiki page)
+> >
+> > this is bogus anyway since it's the percent of packages _submitted_,
+> > not _successfully build_ which is quite different...
+> 
+> Well, the sentence reads: "1455 src.rpm rebuilt for Mageia out of 1513
+> (96%) (list of 58 Mandriva packages still present). You can help!."
+> 
+> I understand it as, 1455 successfully rebuilt, on 1513 submitted at
+> least once (and 58 left to be submitted). If this is wrong, please
+> correct me and specify what should be said instead.
+
+Actually it's "58 copied from Mandriva because they are necessary for a
+minimal chroot, but not rebuilt yet". But we have many more that we
+need to import to have a usable system.
+
+> 
+> The main goal is to show two types of progress:
+>  - packages left to take a hold on;
+>  - packages left to be built and uploaded in the tree;
+
+Looking at the number of packages in Mandriva main repository, there is
+around 3000 source packages.
+
+So maybe an interesting percentage could be number of rebuilt packages,
+out of 3000, to have something like the main repository.
+
+