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-10.4.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.
The (monthly) evolution of the number of package descriptions is shown inside parentheses/in italics.
Currently Fink has 5,225 (+40) .info files split into the following sections:
| Section | # of Pkgs |
|---|---|
| libs/perlmods | 663 (+2) |
| libs | 456 (+7) |
| sci | 422 (-7) |
| gnome | 347 (+8) |
| kde | 342 (+4) |
| utils | 329 (+3) |
| crypto | 321 (+3) |
| net | 302 (+4) |
| devel | 258 (+2) |
| text | 232 (+0) |
| graphics | 235 (+3) |
| kde/po | 186 (+0) |
| games | 181 (+0) |
| languages | 165 (+0) |
| sound | 151 (+3) |
| x11 | 137 (+2) |
| editors | 126 (+1) |
| base | 96 (+2) |
| libs/pythonmods | 80 (+2) |
| web | 69 (+0) |
| x11-wm | 60 (+1) |
| database | 55 (+2) |
| libs/rubymods | 47 (+0) |
| shells | 17 (+0) |
| x11-system | 4 (+0) |
The top 10 maintainers are
| Maintainer | # of Pkgs |
|---|---|
| Benjamin Reed | 836 (+0) |
| Jack Fink | 571 (+25) |
| None | 551 (+3) |
| Daniel Macks | 259 (+2) |
| The Gnome Core Team | 214 (+1) |
| Todai Fink Team | 151 (+1) |
| Daniel Johnson | 148 (+3) |
| Christian Schaffner | 122 (+0) |
| Ben Hines | 102 (+1) |
| Dave Morrison | 100 (+1) |
| Kurt Schwehr | 87 (-1) |
These 10 top maintainers (excluding “No maintainer”) are responsible for 2,590 (50%) package descriptions, having been responsible for 33 (82%) of the new package descriptions added this month. Out of 289 (+1) maintainers, 123 (-2) (43%) of them maintain only one package description, and 211 (+0) (73%) of them maintain five or less package descriptions.
There are 551 (+3) (10%) unmaintained package descriptions.
Our new maintainer this month is Olivier Hervieu, who has packaged python-aspects. Welcome!
