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  • From: "David C. Haley" <dhaley AT hot.rr.com>
  • To: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] prometheus update -- fire by numbers
  • Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 13:13:56 -0500

I have to say putting it into numbers really opens one's eyes. Well at least
mine ;)

Is bitrotting an actual technical term? LOL, just curious.

In any case, again the numbers are rather interesting.

SilverS


On Tue, 18 Apr 2006 09:31:11 -0700
seth AT swoolley.homeip.net wrote:

> After over 1200 spells compiled, I'm checking back in to talk about the
> numbers.
>
> This is just from on my dual opteron box...
>
> Approximately 1/3rds of the spells are broken, but not all of them are
> their own fault. Only about 1/8 are broke broken. The rest are skipped
> due to not being able to satisfy their (most likely) correctly-listed
> dependencies. Keep in mind that many of these spells are bitrotting --
> they are never used due to only one person wanting them. According to
> the ledger, we find that only a few hundred are actually consistently
> used by people. Also keep in mind that the vast majority of these
> errors are missing dependencies or bad md5s. Stuff that's actually
> compile broken are few and far between.
>
> I still have about three to four times this many to compile. I figure
> it will take a week or two if things go ok and the box is ok running
> 24/7. If I let my box go gangbusters forever, I figure we can have
> releases every month or two. With the volunteers, we might be able to
> increase the testing rate so that we can release sooner, but of course,
> testing isn't so much the limit as how fast we can put fixes in and fix
> difficult bugs.
>
> Seth
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