Over the last couple of days I took a look at all the spec files in Fedora. I wanted to find out how many packages have not been updated by someone else than release engineering for mass-rebuilds.
Here is a graphical representation of the data:
And some numbers:
- 20994 spec files considered
- 11 have unknown last date changed (could be that only Dennis changed those or something was wrong with their changelog)
- 13926 have been updated since January 1st 2017 (~66%)
- 17061 have been updated since January 1st 2016 (~81%)
- 18843 have been updated since January 1st 2015 (~90%)
In other words, about 20% of our packages have not been updated by a human for 2 years and 10% for 3 years!
Here are the details used for these stats:
- the script used to generate the stats
- CSV file used to generate the graph above (this is one of the two CSV files produced by the script)