Welcome to a new instalment of the statistics posts.
As usual, these statistics refer to package description files. A package description is a .info file that describes the information that Fink needs in order to manage packages. Sometimes a package is split into multiple .info files (e.g. package-10.5.info and package-10.6.info). It is also possible that a single .info file defines multiple packages: split-offs, different Perl/Python/… versions, -mac/-x11, etc. I’ve also counted a .info file that is in both stable and unstable as a single file.
The (monthly) evolution of the number of package descriptions is shown inside parentheses/in italics.
Currently Fink has 5,318 (-67) .info files split into the following sections:
| Section | # of Pkgs |
|---|---|
| libs/perlmods | 685 (+4) |
| libs | 472 (+4) |
| sci | 439 (+6) |
| gnome | 364 (+4) |
| utils | 347 (+5) |
| crypto | 327 (+0) |
| net | 325 (+2) |
| devel | 271 (+5) |
| graphics | 245 (+6) |
| kde | 244 (-112) |
| text | 237 (+1) |
| games | 200 (+1) |
| kde/po | 187 (+1) |
| languages | 164 (+1) |
| sound | 159 (+2) |
| x11 | 137 (+0) |
| editors | 128 (+0) |
| libs/pythonmods | 81 (+0) |
| web | 75 (+0) |
| x11-wm | 61 (+0) |
| database | 57 (+2) |
| libs/rubymods | 48 (+0) |
| base | 43 (+1) |
| shells | 18 (+0) |
| x11-system | 4 (+0) |
The top 10 maintainers are
| Maintainer | # of Pkgs |
|---|---|
| Benjamin Reed | 716 (-126) |
| Jack Fink | 716 (+48) |
| Daniel Macks | 283 (+0) |
| The Gnome Core Team | 209 (-5) |
| Daniel Johnson | 180 (+6) |
| Todai Fink Team | 153 (+0) |
| Christian Schaffner | 122 (+0) |
| Ben Hines | 103 (+0) |
| Dave Morrison | 99 (+0) |
| Kurt Schwehr | 91 (+1) |
These 10 top maintainers are responsible for 2,672 (50%) package descriptions. Out of 286 (+0) maintainers, 122 (+0) (43%) of them maintain only one package description, and 210 (-1) (73%) of them maintain five or less package descriptions.
There are 586 (-5) (11%) unmaintained package descriptions.
