European Wafaa

The guys and gals over at openSUSE have been beavering away at enhancing a tool that is invaluable to the Bongo Project and many many others - the openSUSE Build Service (OBS for short). One of those enhancements is enabling statistics so packagers can see if the sweat and tears has been worth it.

So to give you a general feel for how busy the OBS is (here comes the science bit):

Number of build hosts = 150
Number of projects = 702
Number of repositories = 2235
Number of packages = 19377
Number of users = 658

Remember these numbers keep growing

How does this relate to Bongo? Well I did a search for our lovely package and for my lovely project (home:FunkyPenguin) and ......:

My project is rated as 68th most active
Bongo-UNSTABLE is the 101st most active package
Bongo (Official release) has been downloaded 2578 times

Holy smokes Drum Beaters, over two and a half thousand downloads!!!! and that is just for the RPMs and a couple will have used the DEBs there, not to mention how many people have used Jonny's DEBs and built from source.

I would just like to say "Rock on Tommy" to all the hackers out there - Alex Hudson, Jonny Lamb, Alex Hixon, Albert Lee, Lance Haig, Chris Lamb, Daniel Ostrow and anyone else I've forgotten - you guys are doing a sterling job, and to the whole Bongoverse for being such a super community.

For those that would prefer to use source rather than packages I have a fairly comprehensive collection of tarballs that I use for building the packages on the OBS, these can be found here. The things to note with these tarballs are:

From svn49 to svn121 all import libraries were used apart from curl
From svn126 to svn224 clucene and libical import libraries used
From svn225 to present only libical import libraries used.

As always if you have any questions/comments to make then please let me know.