[med-svn] r5546 - trunk/community/papers/11_med-floss_luxemburg

Andreas Tille tille at alioth.debian.org
Wed Dec 8 15:55:31 UTC 2010 

Author: tille
Date: 2010-12-08 15:55:30 +0000 (Wed, 08 Dec 2010)
New Revision: 5546

Modified:
   trunk/community/papers/11_med-floss_luxemburg/debian-med.tex
   trunk/community/papers/11_med-floss_luxemburg/paper-text.tex
Log:
Added graphs about project activity


Modified: trunk/community/papers/11_med-floss_luxemburg/debian-med.tex
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--- trunk/community/papers/11_med-floss_luxemburg/debian-med.tex	2010-12-08 14:23:50 UTC (rev 5545)
+++ trunk/community/papers/11_med-floss_luxemburg/debian-med.tex	2010-12-08 15:55:30 UTC (rev 5546)
@@ -28,6 +28,8 @@
 %\usepackage[english]{babel} %%% conflicts with \cite !!!
 \usepackage{xspace}
 \usepackage{narrow}
+\usepackage[tight]{subfigure}
+\usepackage{caption}
 
 \def\addbibtoc{
 \addcontentsline{toc}{section}{\numberline{\mbox{}}\relax\bibname}

Modified: trunk/community/papers/11_med-floss_luxemburg/paper-text.tex
===================================================================
--- trunk/community/papers/11_med-floss_luxemburg/paper-text.tex	2010-12-08 14:23:50 UTC (rev 5545)
+++ trunk/community/papers/11_med-floss_luxemburg/paper-text.tex	2010-12-08 15:55:30 UTC (rev 5546)
@@ -357,10 +357,11 @@
 
 \subsubsection{Other fields than only biology}
 
-Looking at all the projects above it becomes evident that they are all
+Looking at all the fork projects mentioned above (except Fedora
+Medical and openSUSE Medical) it becomes evident that they are all
 dealing only with biological software.  Above it was stated that one
 strong column of \DebianMed is this specific field and it is for a
-reason:  The amount of free biological software is large and most of
+reason: The amount of free biological software is large and most of
 these projects are relatively easy to turn into packages - so the
 amount of work per package is much smaller compared to for instance
 medical record applications with preparation of databases, dedicated
@@ -455,11 +456,12 @@
 
 \subsubsection{Continuous growth}
 
-\begin{figure*}
+\begin{figure}[!htp]
 \centering
 \myinsertgraphic{dmstats.pdf}{100mm}{60mm}
-\caption{Number of dependencies of selected metapackages}\label{figure:dmstats}
-\end{figure*}
+\caption{Number of dependencies of selected metapackages}
+\label{figure:dmstats}
+\end{figure}
 
 Several Free Software projects which try to deal with small user group
 software started with a lot of enthusiasm but at some point in time
@@ -471,6 +473,13 @@
 installers, running an online repository and mirrors work on a bug
 tracking system etc.  All this infrastructure is just there.
 
+\begin{figure}[!htp]
+\centering
+\myinsertgraphic{authorstat.pdf}{100mm}{60mm}
+\caption{Activity of most active authors on the \DebianMed mailing list}
+\label{figure:authorstats}
+\end{figure}
+
 The success of this strategy can be proven by a continuous growth for
 instance if the number of packages inside Debian which is interesting
 for health care.  Taking the number of dependencies of some
@@ -480,12 +489,6 @@
 gradient that perfectly reflects the availability of programs in this
 field can be observed.
 
-\begin{figure*}
-\centering
-\myinsertgraphic{authorstat.pdf}{100mm}{60mm}
-\caption{Activity of most active authors on the \DebianMed mailing list}\label{figure:authorstats}
-\end{figure*}
-
 This growth of the output of a project is an important part but we
 also try to measure the commitment of the people involved in the
 project.  It has to be ensured that fresh blood is flooding into the
@@ -495,13 +498,34 @@
 etc.)  A raw measure for the activity of members might be their mails
 to the project mailing list.  Figure \ref{figure:authorstats}) shows
 the number of mails of the ten most active posters of the \DebianMed
-mailing list.  This graph shows perfectly that the number of active
-supporters is growing solidly.  In the last two years three people can
-be considered as very active and there is no dramatic loss of people
-in the project.  The general activity on the mailing list is
-constantly growing.
+mailing list.  This graph shows that the number of active supporters
+was growing constantly in the first years and is now at some constant
+level.
 
+Considering that some technical discussion was moved to the packaging
+list (see Figure \ref{figure:develstats}(a)) the number of postings of
+the most active people remained quite constant and only one member of
+the team became inactive (while some new people came in but are not
+yet visible in the graphs).
 
+\begin{figure}[!htp]
+\centering
+\footnotesize
+\captionsetup{font=small}
+\captionsetup[figure]{labelfont=bf}
+\subfigure[]{\myinsertgraphic{authorstat_debian-med-packaging}{60mm}{40mm}}
+\subfigure[]{\myinsertgraphic{authorstat_debian-med-commit}{60mm}{40mm}}
+\caption{Activity on development list}
+\label{figure:develstats}
+\end{figure}
+
+The most active people who committed packaging code are shown in
+Figure \ref{figure:develstats}(a).  In the last year 26 developers did
+1108 commits in the SVN and since \DebianMed has started 47 developers
+did 5545 commits regarding packaging medical applications or
+documentation about the project.
+
+
 \subsubsection{Role inside Debian}
 
 The Debian Pure Blends framework was mainly inspired by the \DebianMed
@@ -512,16 +536,29 @@
 day on this project.  \DebianMed tried to gain profit from common
 technologies and generalised some tools of Debian Edu for all Blends.
 Moreover inside \DebianMed some new Blend tools were developed which
-enhance the easy build of metapackages.  The latest contribution to
-the Blend framework is a set of automatically generated web pages
-which can be used by any Blend.  For instance there is an overview
-about all the so called tasks (fields like biology, medical imaging,
-practice management) which provides a nice list of all the packages
-including some metainformation and the description of the packages in
-this task.  So the output of the project can be easily viewed at
-\printurl{http://debian-med.alioth.debian.org/tasks/}{the tasks page
-  of \DebianMed}.
+enhance the easy build of metapackages.
 
+For documentation purpose in addition to the metapackages there is a
+so called web sentinel consisting of so called tasks and bugs pages.
+The tasks pages are providing an overview about all the work fields
+like biology, medical imaging, practice management etc.  which are
+covered by \DebianMed.  The list of all the packages is regenerated
+daily and includes some meta information and the description of the
+packages in this task.  So the output of the project can be easily
+viewed at \printurl{http://debian-med.alioth.debian.org/tasks/}{the
+  tasks page of \DebianMed}.
+
+For the comfort of the user these pages are translated (if the
+\printurl{http://ddtp.debian.net/}{Debian Description Translation
+  Project} has provided translations), includes screenshots from
+\printurl{http://screenshots.debian.net/}{screenshots.debian.net} if
+available, gives information about the usage of a package by querying
+\printurl{http://popcon.debian.org/}{Debian Popularity Contest}
+results and informs about versions packaged for Debian as well as a
+notification about new upstream versions.  Moreover the visitor of
+these pages gets an easy option to provide a screenshot or a missing
+or translations as well as fixing a wrong translation.
+
 There are also quality assurance tools developed for instance there is
 an overview about
 \printurl{http://debian-med.alioth.debian.org/bugs/}{all bugs

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