[Mageia-sysadm] [321] add progress percent + invitation to help ( links to packaging wiki page)

[nicolas vigier]

On Wed, 19 Jan 2011, Romain d'Alverny wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 18:19, Thierry Vignaud
> <thierry.vignaud at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 19 January 2011 18:03,  <root at mageia.org> wrote:
> >> Revision 321 Author rda Date 2011-01-19 18:03:00 +0100 (Wed, 19 Jan 2011)
> >>
> >> Log Message
> >>
> >> add progress percent + invitation to help (links to packaging wiki page)
> >
> > this is bogus anyway since it's the percent of packages _submitted_,
> > not _successfully build_ which is quite different...
> 
> Well, the sentence reads: "1455 src.rpm rebuilt for Mageia out of 1513
> (96%) (list of 58 Mandriva packages still present). You can help!."
> 
> I understand it as, 1455 successfully rebuilt, on 1513 submitted at
> least once (and 58 left to be submitted). If this is wrong, please
> correct me and specify what should be said instead.

Actually it's "58 copied from Mandriva because they are necessary for a
minimal chroot, but not rebuilt yet". But we have many more that we
need to import to have a usable system.

> 
> The main goal is to show two types of progress:
>  - packages left to take a hold on;
>  - packages left to be built and uploaded in the tree;

Looking at the number of packages in Mandriva main repository, there is
around 3000 source packages.

So maybe an interesting percentage could be number of rebuilt packages,
out of 3000, to have something like the main repository.