Re: Major enhancements to pearweb

Jeff Moore wrote: > > On Dec 3, 2006, at 1:36 AM, Greg Beaver wrote: > >> 2) package homepages now display very useful information about bug >> tracker activity than can be used to judge whether a package is being >> actively maintained independent of the label. (me) > > Hi Greg, > > Cool idea. Would it make sense to create a section labeled "Activity" > that could report this as well as other indicators of active maintenance? > > I'm not sure what other indicators would be available? > > Days since last release This is already available in the Downloads tab > Days since documentation update This would be astronomically difficult to implement, as each doc file would need to be checked individually in CVS, I'm not sure I want to go this route :). > Days since last CVS checkin This is only possible for those packages hosted at php.net, and so I am loathe to foist this on PEAR > # CVS commits since last release > > Any others? I think a useful and interesting metric would be the percentage of bugs closed by developers (independent of package) to show whether the developers who maintain the package are active in that manner, but it might be misleading to do this, which is why I haven't done it yet. Greg