On Fri, 21 Aug 2015 10:54:58 +0200, Miroslav Suchý wrote:
> Your script output does not tell anything at all about activity
of all
> packagers in the package collection, in the normal review queue(s), in
> pkgdb. No clues about number of orphaned/retired packages. No clues about
> semi-dead packages where the packager is absent for a long time, and the
> package only gets rebuilt during mass-rebuilds or receives random rebuilds
> by other people.
This is completely different sets of problems.
It was you who mentioned:
[1]
https://eischmann.wordpress.com/2015/07/27/growth-of-fedora-repository-ha...
| Growth of Fedora Repository Has Almost Stalled
| [...] the increase of number of packages in the official Fedora
| repository has almost stalled:
Is that blog post meant to be understood differently than I do?
Is growth of the repository only linked to packagersponsors' activity?
I don't think so. You cannot reduce the problem to only the needsponsor
process. Lack of growth is due to various factors.