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090903 Mark Knecht wrote: |
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> I'm wondering whether these stats are correct? |
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> They are captured from http://archives.gentoo.org/ |
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> I find them a bit disappointing. I was surprised |
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> how much email traffic has fallen off for the Gentoo lists |
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> over the last couple of years. I suspect some of this |
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> is folks moving to less technical environments - maybe Ubuntu or Arch - |
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> but still I was surprised that it was something like a 60 % drop |
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> since the high in 2006. I was also surprised at the drop on gentoo-dev |
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> as it correlates with my impression of bugs not being addressed as fast. |
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> gentoo-dev gentoo-user gentoo-amd64 |
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> 2009 3743 11126 1519 |
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> 2008 5379 15269 1418 |
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> 2007 8480 13643 1977 |
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> 2006 10184 25954 4038 |
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> 2005 9055 15378 1880 |
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> 2004 8569 545 27 |
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> 2003 8324 |
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> 2002 8156 |
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> 2001 5679 |
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> 2000 4 |
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First, you need to adjust 2009 by 3/2 , ie |
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2009 5615 16689 2279 |
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which shows a significant increase this year in all 3 categories. |
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Otherwise, I agree with the other comments, ie that Gentoo has matured: |
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Portage is more user-friendly, big changes like Udev have been accomplished, |
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people who shouldn't be using Gentoo have dropped out |
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& the few devs who were responsible have stopped flaming one another |
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(or perhaps do so on a non-public list somewhere else); |
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it may also be true that the Forum has taken away a lot of users, |
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who seem on average younger (it sounds like a high-school cafeteria). |
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Quality is what matters & I'ld say it has improved in recent years. |
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