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Endangered packagesEndangered packagesPosted Dec 3, 2008 2:47 UTC (Wed) by mgb (guest, #3226)In reply to: Endangered packages by ncm Parent article: Linux Evolution Reveals Origins of Curious Mathematical Phenomenon (PhysOrg)
Sound practical advice (which, if universally followed, would destroy the power law adherence).
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Endangered packages Posted Dec 3, 2008 6:50 UTC (Wed) by krishna (guest, #24080) [Link]
If developers empirically find that one choice of upstream package is
better than another, one would think they would gravitate towards it. If the case is (one possibility among many) that the statistics already reflect the general quality of the upstream packages, then might developers consulting the statistics end up producing the same result anyway? Another train of thought is that developers consulting the statistics could either converge (onto a power-law formula or another formula) or diverge as a result of the feedback which that effect produces on the system.
Endangered packages Posted Dec 4, 2008 18:27 UTC (Thu) by JoeBuck (subscriber, #2330) [Link] I don't think that people observing that some packages aren't used much, and removing their dependencies on them, really will change the power law, because new packages will continue to be produced, they will look promising at first, and some of them won't pan out. So we'll just see a kind of dynamic equilibrium.
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