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Re:Homebrew 4.0.0 by cassianoleal on Thursday February 16, 2023 @08:59AM (#34818661)
How can they monitor failure rate if they only track failures though?
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Re:Homebrew 4.0.0 by grugagag on Thursday February 16, 2023 @09:49AM (#34819311)
Why does it have to be a rate? Failures counts and failure types are good enough to extrapolate whatever else you need
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Re:Homebrew 4.0.0 by cratermoon on Thursday February 16, 2023 @10:22AM (#34819827)
https://www.trevorbragdon.com/when-data-gives-the-wrong-solu...
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Re:Homebrew 4.0.0 by afavour on Thursday February 16, 2023 @11:21AM (#34820710)
They really aren't. If a package is downloaded 100k times and fails 1k times it's a very different issue than if it's downloaded 1k times and fails 1k times.
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Re:Homebrew 4.0.0 by storoj on Thursday February 16, 2023 @02:24PM (#34824348)
IMO installation failures are equally bad, no matter if they happen in 1% of cases or in 100%.
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Re:Homebrew 4.0.0 by afavour on Thursday February 16, 2023 @02:41PM (#34824607)
Well, you're wrong. If you have 10,000 packages and 1,000 of them are failing it's clearly useful to be able to prioritize which to fix first.
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