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Re: [trinity-devel] Latest press/comments on release

From: "Timothy Pearson" <kb9vqf@...>
Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2012 22:10:55 -0500
> 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
>>
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> 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