single representative of fresh packages for clones?

[jrmarino]

I've been watching manjaro testing and manjaro unstable for months. They are normally identical, or at worst differ by a couple of packages. For the purposes of statistics, they are clones.

There are only 8 slots in the "percentage of fresh packages" scoreboard on the front page. It doesn't seem fair that manjaro takes up 2 slots with virtually identical repositories.

My suggestion is have the ability filter out certain repositories for the purposes of these scoreboards, and filter out manjaro testing. Free up a spot so the current 9th place repository gets on the board.

A deeper question is whether 2 such similar repositories should be registered at all, but I'll assume that you deem it worthwhile. It appears they are synced together frequently, e.g. daily or multiple times daily.

[AMDmi3]

Sure, this is long planned (#409), but I still haven't decided the best way to do it.

[AMDmi3]

An idea is to split repository name into name + optional variant, e.g. Ubuntu + 18.10 Backports, Arch + Testing, FreeBSD ports + . These would just be concatenated when shown on the site, but also allow more complex handling for grouping purposes. This does not handle derivatives (e.g. Ubuntu/Debian) yet, but should be a nice start.