On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 1:11 PM, Donnie Berkholz <dberkholz@g.o> wrote:
> On 08:09 Tue 02 Nov , "Paweł Hajdan, Jr." wrote:
>> On 11/2/10 4:24 AM, Rafael Goncalves Martins wrote:
>> > I think that a first step should be create a new category, maybe
>> > called dev-lua, for all the Lua related stuff.
>>
>> Just checking: how many packages would be in the new category?
>
> In case anyone was wondering, I wanted to check how many packages
> typically showed up in a category. Here's a histogram of the
> distribution. The number of packages are in column 1, and the number of
> categories having that many packages are in column 2 (bin size 10,
> number shown ±5).
>
> To summarize, half the categories have 10-50 packages, then there are a
> number of huge ones. If you can get at least 15 packages, it's a
> reasonable starting point for a new category.
>
> 5 5
> 15 19
> 25 15
> 35 21
> 45 14
> 55 9
> 65 7
> 75 10
> 85 9
> 95 2
> 105 7
> 115 1
> 125 4
> 135 4
> 145 1
> 165 1
> 185 4
> 195 1
> 205 1
> 215 1
> 225 1
> 245 2
> 255 1
> 265 3
> 295 2
> 345 2
> 355 2
> 375 1
> 485 1
> 545 1
> 985 1
>
Hi Donnie,
thanks for the stats.
I'm just wondering if it's worth add the packages now, before create
the new category, and have more packages to fix when creating the new
category.
Best regards,
--
Rafael Goncalves Martins
Gentoo Linux developer
http://rafaelmartins.eng.br/
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