[Nix-dev] Maintainership

[Eelco Dolstra]

Hi,

On 28/01/14 18:08, Oliver Charles wrote:

>> * If a package is unmaintained, it can be removed with minimal notice.
>>   This will require some time under the new idea of maintainership
>>   before it can be fairly put into place, but Eelco had the suggestion
>>   that no maintainers could be treated equivalently to meta.broken =
>>   true.
> 
> In Debian, I would imagine they can make use of the popularity contest
> or whatever it is to see if people are even using this. Is it worth that
> we consider having the ability to gather metrics like that? 

It should be possible (if somewhat tricky) to gather this information from the
logs of cache.nixos.org (at least for those packages that are actually in the
cache).

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Eelco Dolstra | LogicBlox, Inc. | http://nixos.org/~eelco/