> On 11 October 2012 21:39, Darrell Anderson <humanreadable@...> > wrote: >>> > 2. Regarding the statement about "international team of >>> developers." Do we claim that anywhere in the software? What >>> about the web site or wiki? Although the claim is true, such >>> statements portray a large number of people and we should >>> not convey such claims. We barely survive with the few >>> people we have. >>> >>> Well our developer base is international ;) >> >> I wrote, "Although the claim is true..." >> >>> > 3. How many people use Trinity? I haven't a clue and I >>> doubt anybody does. Is the user base tens of thousands of >>> users? Thousands? Hundreds? Dozens? One dozen? My point is >>> we are a small project. We should not get involved in the >>> whirlwinds of debate. Just quietly mind our own business. >>> People will always think what they want. The only way people >>> will pay attention to us in a positive light is to release >>> quality products. To that end we focus. 3.5.13.1 is out. >>> Onward with R14. :) >>> >>> Though I would like to know this... how many users do we see >>> pulling from our repositories? >> >> I suspect download data is a poor reflection of the acutal user base. >> >> Darrell >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: >> trinity-devel-unsubscribe@... >> For additional commands, e-mail: >> trinity-devel-help@... >> Read list messages on the web archive: >> http://trinity-devel.pearsoncomputing.net/ >> Please remember not to top-post: >> http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/mailing_lists/#top-posting >> > > Yet it is our only gauge In that spirit, here are some raw numbers from the package archives alone: Month Unique visitors Number of visits Pages Hits Jul 2012 7203 30044 2148392 2171289 Aug 2012 7512 33376 3775045 3796052 Sep 2012 7689 38260 2296008 2312371 Regarding my earlier comments on whether anyone has tried KDE4 recemtly, I downloaded a KDE 4.9 testing LiveCD with OpenSUSE 12.1. While the boot sequence was slow and the default graphics are as bad as I remembered, the killer was that the entire virtual machine locked up as soon as I clicked the Kicker menu icon. I think I'll wait until OpenSUSE officially releases a LiveCD with KDE 4.9 before trying again. :-) Tim