Domenic Santangelo wrote:
On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 2:11 PM, andrew morton <drewish@katherinehouse.com> wrote:
On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 1:01 PM, Michael Favia <michael@favias.org> wrote:
Derek Wright wrote:
However, the point of the maintainers block isn't necessarily to provide links people click on, but text people read. And data about how many maintainers, who they are, and how active they are is important information for assessing the health of a project. Project statistics are useful to us but most users dont care about them. Are you basing that statement on anything or is that just your speculation?
I'm not sure they're useful as presented. They're interesting for sure, but not informative as-is.
Examples: http://drupal.org/project/paging - last commit from Gurpartap: 2 weeks ago. Next maintainer (Darren): 48 weeks ago. Last D5 recommended release was in January. http://drupal.org/project/panels - last commit (now) by merlin, next by Sun: 11 weeks ago. Last D5 recommended release was Aug 2008.
Well, it's pretty accurate -- Panels for D5 is actually very poorly maintained at this point. Paging may actually be maintained and simply not need much attention because it's very small and focused. It does one thing, does it well, etc.