[gentoo-dev] Data Collection and Survey

[Andrey Falko]

Hi everyone,

I am attempting to gather data for my Simulation course at Columbia
University. The data will be used for my Simulation project where my
aim is to estimate the work load of developers related to the
maintenance of the portage tree. The Simulation will generate fake
package releases and bug reports in simulation time, and compute the
number of hours each developer spends working as well as other
interesting information.

There are two pieces of data that I am attempting to gather:

1) emerge.logs from all developers maintaining packages (to determine
the respective compile times of all maintained packages in portage
tree), preferably multiple ones from each (to gauge the effect of
multiple workstations).

2) A rough estimate from all developers maintaining packages of how
many times they have to recompile (i.e. test their ebuilds) a package
before committing a new ebuild.

The more data I can collect, the more accurate the Simulation will be.
Thank you all in advance for your cooperation. And thank you for
spending the time making a great distribution.

Best regards,

Andrey Falko
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