[ATrpms-devel] ATrpms stats for deciding on EOLing distros

[Axel Thimm]

Hi,

the EOLing of some distros comes up often, and ATrpms is currently
swamped by supporting so many distros. So I created some stats out of
the first days of July which can be used for deciding on what to do.

ATrpms alone
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fc5-i386        36%
fc4-i386        30%
fc3-i386        11%
fc2-i386        7.4%
fc5-x86_64      5.2%
el4-i386        3.8%
rh9-i386        1.6%
fc4-x86_64      1.5%
fc1-i386        1.1%

ATrpms + non-ATrpms
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fc4-i386        38%
fc5-i386        30%
fc3-i386        12%
fc2-i386        5.9%
fc5-x86_64      5.1%
rh9-i386        2.0%
el4-i386        1.5%
fc4-x86_64      1.4%
fc1-i386        1.1%

o x86_64: About 1 to every 7 FC5 users and 1 to every 20 FC4 users.
o FC5 and FC4 almost on the same level still.
o less FC1 than RH9
o FC4 users use more non-ATrpms than FC5.
o Rather few EL users.

The date above was extracttttted from dl.atrpms.net. There are still
quite a few people (from older distros) using apt.atrpms.net which was
obsoleted almost a year ago, and which I didn't evaluate.

FL plans to drop FC1 and FC2 by the end of July and RHL9/7.3 between
October and December (although since there wasn't yet an announcement
these dates may shift).

Therefore I'd like to suggest to do the following:

o keep as active distributions EL3-4 and FC3-6
o demote the others in a staged way as
  1) no builds for new (not updated) packages
  2) updated packages failing to build under these old distros don't
     get fixed, the distro simply gets this package cut.
  3) no updates at all
  4) removal from main master site

Comments? Dates?
-- 
Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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