saving a few ports from death

[Charlie Kester]

On Tue 26 Apr 2011 at 14:27:47 PDT Charlie Kester wrote:
>On Tue 26 Apr 2011 at 09:34:24 PDT Charlie Kester wrote:
>>
>>I'm not a web programmer and don't have access to the freshports
>>sourcecode. So all I can do there is make a suggestion. But perhaps I'll
>>take some time to go through the list of unmaintained ports and manually
>>check them against the popularity ratings on a site like freshmeat.
>>It's a bit of a leap to assume that a program that's popular on Linux
>>will be as popular on BSD, but it's the best data we have for the time
>>being.
>
>FWIW, here are some popularity/vitality stats from freshmeat for
>unmaintained ports in the sysutils category.
>
>Freshmeat calculates these stats as follows:
>
>popularity = ((record hits + URL hits) * (subscriptions + 1))^(1/2)
>
>where record hits = hits on the freshmeat project page, url hits =
>clickthroughs to author's projectpage or download site, and
>subscriptions = freshmeat users following the project.
>
>vitality = ((announcements * age) / (last_announcement))^(1/2)
>
>"The number of announcements a project has made is multiplied by the
>number of days it has existed in the database, which is then divided by
>the days passed since the last release. This way, projects with lots of
>announcements that have been around for a long time and have recently
>come out with a new release earn a high vitality score, and old projects
>that have only been announced once get a low vitality score."
>
>For comparison and to give a sense of scale, here are the stats for some
>well-known projects:
>
>Name		Popularity	Vitality
>
>mplayer		3,995.20	45.16
>
>MySQL		3,310.55	73.39
>
>mutt		1,032.71	42.53
>
>conky		173.67		3.60
>
>exaile		64.48		3.75
>
>In the attached file, ports listed with popularity and vitality scores = 0
>are those where there is no entry in the freshmeat database.
>
>I made no effort to verify that a freshmeat project with the same name
>as the port is in fact the same program, so there might be some false
>positives in the data.

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