[code-quality] Yet another metric

[Ian Cordasco]

On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 9:22 AM, Tarek Ziadé <tarek at ziade.org> wrote:
> On 4/4/13 3:14 PM, Ian Cordasco wrote:
>>
>> So I was just introduced to pyroma
>> (https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pyroma,
>> https://bitbucket.org/regebro/pyroma) which would probably work nicely
>> as a plugin to flake8 or just as a good metric in general.
>>
>> It doesn't exactly measure the quality of the code itself, BUT it does
>> measure the quality of a package which I'm sure would be useful to
>> some (if not many) of our users.
>>
>> I had never thought of analyzing a package for quality beyond it's
>> source (in all candor), so I'm fairly excited about this tool.
>
> Interesting
>
> Except:
>
> ...If you are checking on a PyPI package, and not a local directory or local
> package, pyroma will check the number of owners the package has on PyPI. It
> should be three or more, to minimize the "Bus factor", the risk of the index
> owners suddenly going off-line for whatever reason...
>
> In reality, most companies/org use a single account on PyPI so you can't
> tell how many developers are behind - so this check seems unpractical.
>
> Note that I added a similar thing in python's distutils: the check command.
>
> That reminds me of the CheeseCake btw : http://pycheesecake.org/

Well if it were a plugin to Flake8 it would only be checking the local
directory since Flake8 at no point (as you well know) downloads
packages for checks. The I hadn't noticed the check command in
distutils (I've never dug that far into it) and I'm looking at
CheeseCake now as well. Thanks!