[Popcon-developers] Bug#238004: popularity-contest: Name = Maintainer Name, not Package name

[Bill Allombert]

On Mon, Mar 15, 2004 at 06:06:08PM +0100, Joachim Breitner wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> What about
> #<name> is the maintainer's name
> #<inst> is the number of people who installed a package from this
>         maintainer
> #<vote> is the number of people who use a package from this
>         maintainer regularly;
> #<recent> is the number of people who upgraded a package from this
>         maintainer recently;
> #<no-file> is the number of people whose entry didn'T contain enough
>         information (atime and ctime were 0)
> 
> A bit stiff, but very correct :-)

It is not, but that enlightened me on what I should write here.
In fact 
<inst> is the sum of the <inst> value of all the packages maintained by
this developer.

In fact in the experimental version, it is even more complex:
popcon know about comaintainership and weight packages by the 
number of comaintainer (if you are three to maintain a package,
each comaintainers get 1/3 of the users as a floating-point value.)

I see that I need to document that anyway, so thanks again for your
bug report!

Cheers,
-- 
Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>

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