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> > Can we agree that active developers are good for Gentoo, |
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> Yes |
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> > and the more the better? |
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> If they are co-operating or working on separate projects, not if they are |
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> competing and flaming. |
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> > I think other posters to this thread may be trying to compile a |
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> > similar set of statistics, but I'll just come out and say it. Can we |
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> > compare historical data on the number of Gentoo users and the rate of |
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> > Gentoo maintenance and growth? |
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> Number of users is largely irrelevant, it's not as if Gentoo needs a |
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> number of "customers" to survive, it is a non-profit organisation |
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> producing free products. |
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That's exactly the argument here, and the point of creating the 3-way |
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comparison I suggested. I'm trying to determine if Gentoo does "need |
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a number of customers to survive", to thrive, or not at all. If you |
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are all correct, an increased user base would not benefit Gentoo, but |
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there is a possibility that it would and has. That's what I'm trying |
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to determine. |
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> The latter number is more interesting, and |
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> should be available from places like Gentoo's CVS repositories and the |
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> site Bo mentioned earlier in this thread. |
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> For a rough idea of the rate of development, look at the portage snapshots |
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> on the install CDs over the years and count the packages. Of course, mere |
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> number cannot quantify things like the improvements in the quality of the |
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> software. |
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It's clear that no one source of data will serve to represent any of |
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the three desired plot-lines: users, rate of maintenance, and rate of |
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growth. In that case, some type of composite score for each is in |
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order. Can anyone suggest sources of data for each composite score? |
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In addition to or in lieu of the composite scores, the individual data |
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points could be compared to each other for a more fine-grained set of |
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statistics. |
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Users |
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- bouncer.gentoo.org activity |
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- mailing list activity |
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- forum activity |
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- general website activity |
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- Gentoo Store data |
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Rate of Maintenance |
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- ratio of opened bugs to closed bugs |
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- other bugs.gentoo.org info |
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Rate of Growth |
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- CVS repository data |
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- info from http://cia.navi.cx/ |
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- number of packages in old portage snapshots |
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Please post additions or modifications to the above list, especially |
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pertaining to the rate of growth. A real developer should be able to |
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better determine the specific data to use in that estimation. |
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- Grant |
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