I published some statistics last Saturday. Let’s see what’s happened in one week (the difference with regard to last week is shown inside parentheses).
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-10.4.info and package-10.5.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.
Currently Fink has 5,153 (+42) .info files split into the following sections:
| Section | # of Pkgs |
|---|---|
| libs/perlmods | 659 (+1) |
| libs | 446 (+3) |
| sci | 426 (+5) |
| kde | 338 (+4) |
| utils | 325 (+2) |
| gnome | 332 (+16) |
| crypto | 316 (+2) |
| net | 298 (+5) |
| devel | 252 (+0) |
| text | 232 (+1) |
| graphics | 232 (+1) |
| kde/po | 186 (+0) |
| games | 180 (+0) |
| languages | 165 (+0) |
| sound | 146 (+2) |
| x11 | 135 (+0) |
| editors | 124 (+0) |
| base | 94 (+0) |
| libs/pythonmods | 74 (+0) |
| web | 68 (+0) |
| x11-wm | 59 (+0) |
| database | 53 (+0) |
| libs/rubymods | 46 (+0) |
| shells | 17 (+0) |
| x11-system | 4 (+0) |
The top 10 maintainers are
| Maintainer | # of Pkgs |
|---|---|
| Benjamin Reed | 837 (+3) |
| No maintainer | 549 (+0) |
| Jack Fink | 538 (+12) |
| Daniel Macks | 249 (+2) |
| The Gnome Core Team | 210 (+14) |
| Todai Fink Team | 150 (+0) |
| Daniel Johnson | 143 (+2) |
| Christian Schaffner | 122 (+0) |
| Ben Hines | 102 (+1) |
| Dave Morrison | 99 (+0) |
| Kurt Schwehr | 88 (+0) |
These 10 top maintainers (excluding “No maintainer”) are responsible for 2,538 (+34) (49%) package descriptions, having been responsible for 34 (81%) of the new package descriptions added this week. Out of 286 maintainers, 123 (43%) of them maintain only one package description, and 209 (73%) of them maintain five or less package descriptions.
There are 549 (11%) unmaintained package descriptions. Do you feel like adopting a package? 🙂
Christian Schaffner hasn’t had time for Fink in a while; I think Ben Hines occasionally still updates stuf.
Yeah, I’m interested in adopting a package! Where do I find a list of the ‘unmaintained’ packages? If I were to adopt one, I’d need to know if it were a feasible task! How much Fink/OSX/Unix skill is involved?
@John: I’ve written some information on unmaintained packages in the first statistics post, https://finkers.wordpress.com/2009/06/06/some-statistics/
Work on a package varies a lot. Some of them require a lot of tweaking in order to work on Mac OS X, others are pretty easy (partly due to previous work on porting to Mac). In general, packages with small package descriptions (.info files) and no patch files (.patch) are the easiest to maintain.