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Comment by coredog64

7 days ago

My current employer publishes "staleness" metrics at the project level. It's imperfect because it weights all the dependencies the same, but it's better than nothing.

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m000  6 days ago

I wonder, are there tools to help you automate this? I.e. to assign a value to the staleness of each package instead of simple "oudated" boolean, and also a weight to each package.

E.g. something like:

  pkg_staleness = (1 * missed_patch + 5 * missed_minor + 10 * missed_major) * (month_diff(installed_release_date, latest_release_date)/2)^2

  proj_staleness = sum(pkg.staleness * pkg.weight for pkg in all_packages)