Re: [gentoo-project] [RFC] 'Gentoo in 2020', next round

[Michał Górny]

On Thu, 2021-01-14 at 10:26 +0200, Joonas Niilola wrote:
>
> On 1/14/21 12:45 AM, Andreas K. Hüttel wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > taking over on Michal's request, here is latest version of the "2020 in
> > retrospect" post.
> >
> > https://gist.github.com/akhuettel/a5ffcce70f3b3152fc9d654b696bbbe7
> >
> > The first paragraph (above "Gentoo in numbers") will be the text visible on
> > the main www.g.o. page.
> >
> > Let's publish this sometime on the weekend; in the meantime, feedback and more
> > suggestions for content are welcome.
> >
> > Please keep in mind that here we want to mainly show off **user-visible**
> > news.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Andreas
> >
> ------
> 2020 featured almost 25500 bugs reported, compared to 15000 in 2019. ...
> The total number of bugs closed in 2020 was 23500, compared to 15000 in
> 2019.
> ------
>
> 15000 created and closed bugs in 2019 seems suspicious. Could that
> number be verified? I see even in 2020 the numbers are very close to
> each other. But just in case.

antarus grabbed these numbers using some magical SQL.  Note that I've
applied rounding to a multiple of 500.

> ------
> packages.gentoo.org The packages website has received a lot of
> improvements towards being a central source of information on Gentoo
> packages. It now shows the results of QA checks, bugs, pull requests
> referencing a package, and a maintainer dashboard indicating
> stabilization candidates and outdated versions (according to Repology).
> ------
>
> I'd like to add somewhere that these new checks are fully uniquely
> customizable via session (cookies?). For anyone wondering what I'm
> talking about, check
>   https://packages.gentoo.org/user/preferences
>   https://packages.gentoo.org/user/preferences/packages
>
>
> Then the last part... discontinued projects. I'd like to end this on a
> happier note. Like moving the whole "Please note that we can describe
> here only a few major items. We would like to thank all Gentoo
> developers for their relentless everyday Gentoo work. While they are
> often not recognized for this work, Gentoo could not exist without
> them." part at the very end, and somehow disconnect it from
> "Discontinued projects" via markdown. Just my opinion.
>
>

Yeah, I've indicated that we'd use some summary, and certainly it would
make sense to make that a part of it.


-- 
Best regards,
Michał Górny