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["David C. Haley" <dhaley AT hot.rr.com>]

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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