Doesn't freshmeat/sourceforge give you that automatically somehow? I remember seeing some sort of league table of the most 'active' projects on one of the two sites, taking that figure is something that could be automated, and so wouldn't go out of date, it might be a good start? If the code isn't on freshmeat/sourceforge maybe the same thing could be setup on the server where boost source is stored? Thinking about it, you could probably list the number of hackers on each project too, that would be a useful statistic. And what about bugs? Maybe the number of bugs in the bugzilla database (if there is one) could be shown too, that would go some way to indicating stability. And if there is an issuezilla (like openoffice.org has) then that might say something about completeness? The severity rating of each bug would be useful too ... Using all this stuff in a clever way, you could really come up with a groovy stats page for each project perhaps. Hope these ideas are helpful! Gaz -----Original Message----- From: boost-users-bounces@lists.boost.org [mailto:boost-users-bounces@lists.boost.org] On Behalf Of Aaron W. LaFramboise Sent: 28 October 2004 20:25 To: boost-users@lists.boost.org Subject: Re: [Boost-users] uBLAS past, present, and future. Daniel L Elliott wrote:

I am trying to better understand the current status of the uBLAS library. Below I have listed a few questions. Of course, any responses are completely off the record. We just need to get a better idea of the current state of uBLAS. Thank you, in advance, for any information you provide.

I don't have the answers to these questions, but to be honest, I wish that every library in Boost had answers to all of these questions up in front on the main page of their documentation. These are very important peices of information, and misunderstandings with regards to these issues in general has created a lot of problems in the past. Sometimes, it would just be nice to have an honest indication of project vitality. Aaron W. LaFramboise _______________________________________________ Boost-users mailing list Boost-users@lists.boost.org http://lists.boost.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/boost-users