Projects/PackageTriage
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This article is about selecting packages to be included in the distribution.
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[edit] Selecting by popularity rank
[edit] DrakStats
DrakStats can aggregate usage statistics from Mandriva users.
[edit] Freshmeat
Freshmeat references several useful packages ratings, such as user rating, project vitality, and project popularity. It offers many backends (see http://freshmeat.net/faq/ and http://freshmeat.net/backend/):
- XML-RPC interface
- global XML data (bzipped)
- individual project data: http://freshmeat.net/projects-xml/_project_/_project_.xml
[edit] SourceForge
SourceForge provides statistics about the projects it hosts, such as project ranking, project activity, and downloads counts. This is available from per-project RSS feeds: http://sourceforge.net/export/rss2_projsummary.php?group_id=_group_id_
We may need a special account to mass-download from SourceForge, see A note to Open Source software researchers
[edit] Selecting by freshness of Mandriva packages
The freshness of a package may give an hint about its maintenance level.
The youri-check tool from the Youri project can compare versions of Mandriva packages with various sources such as project homepages (CPAN/Freshmeat/GNOME/RAA/SourceForge) and other distributions (Debian/Fedora/Gentoo/NetBSD).
A demo [html] [rss] is hosted on zarb.org.
See Youri::Check::Test::Updates::Source modules for reference about data retrieval from the various projects.
