Orphaning my Packages - "packager pump-ups" :-)

[Matt Domsch]

On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 11:19:53PM +1000, David Timms wrote:
> Jeff Spaleta wrote:
> >On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 4:01 AM, G <balajig81 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>Off late There are more contributors joinig fedora which is excellent
> ...
> 
> >I'm all ears as to what you think is appropriate feedback.
> How many times has my package, and it's updates been downloaded ?
> ie am I really just doing this for myself, or are my fellow Fedorians 
> benefiting from my work {and it takes me weeks to get even a basic 
> package ready for the review process, so I understand how much work}  ?
> 
> This could at least be tracked on the fedoraproject managed sites, as 
> raw down-load hits. Would miss the packages that are included in live 
> cd's and within download media.
> 
> Perhaps an advance on the mirror-manager tracker that allows a mirror to 
> upload download hit counts for each rpm file for the day/week/month etc ?

https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/549
is filed; needs someone to champion it.

 
> Also, number of available and or installed packages that use my package 
> as a requires ?

yum provides this, albeit not recursively.

 
> And, many thanks to Brandon for the work done in making some php 
> packages like json available - this made it a lot easier for me to get 
> eg sugar crm demo going for work.

Indeed.  Brandon, best of luck in your future endeavors.

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Matt Domsch
Linux Technology Strategist, Dell Office of the CTO
linux.dell.com & www.dell.com/linux