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On Thu, 06 Nov 2014 14:25:46 +0100 |
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Jauhien Piatlicki <jauhien@g.o> wrote: |
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> Mathematics you said? That's nice. You can, for example, redesign our |
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> portage's dependency solving algorithm |
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More generally perhaps: do something interesting with the portage tree. |
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If not as directly useful as fixing dependency, a look at how bits of |
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the tree changed over time (particularly with regard to |
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inter-dependencies between the bits) could be much more interesting |
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than regarding any particular snapshot. |
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The other huge multidimensional tree we have is the bug tracker |
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database. Several social science majors have already tried to do |
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something intelligible with the bug tracker data (and failed in my |
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opinion) so I am confident that someone who doesn't have that socially |
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oriented view of networks might be able to come up with more outrageous |
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and interesting viewpoints on how the bug tracker actually works and how |
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various bits of it interconnect, or doesn't work and don't connect, |
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respectively. |
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