Re: fedora mission (was Re: systemd and changes)

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On Wed, 2010-08-25 at 20:41 -0500, Mike McGrath wrote:
> On Tue, 24 Aug 2010, Jeff Spaleta wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 2:06 PM, Paul W. Frields <stickster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > I don't think anyone can generalize that the usage of Fedora is
> > > declining.  What we can prove, and certainly is troublesome, is that
> > > yum check-ins of successive releases have been dropping by a couple
> > > percent each release (although downloads are actually up), compared on
> > > a per-week basis.  It's no less likely that this decrease is due to
> > > people just staying on a stable release, even past EOL.  I've heard
> > > anecdotal evidence to support that, which is no more or less valuable
> > > than any other anecdotal evidence being presented, I suppose (IOW,
> > > probably not worth a thing).  If someone can present a hard analysis
> > > that points to only one possible scenario, fantastic -- we can start
> > > looking at causes.
> >
> > One additional metric which I'd like to see is the raw number of yum
> > check-ins per week regardless of ip-addresses as an historic trend.
> > As a stand alone metric its prone to both over and under counting like
> > the other metrics but in a different way. It would be interesting to
> > see if the raw yum check-in counts as an historic trend followed the
> > download trending or the unique-ip trending.
> >
> 
> Ask and ye' shall receive.
> 
> http://mmcgrath.fedorapeople.org/yum_hits.html
> 
> I'm not quite sure what to make of it all yet except that this trend does
> conflict with the "current release" numbers we have on the statistics page
> (indicating people are using Fedora even after EOL) and that security
> incidents requiring a rebuild of everything is bad for business, at least
> temporarily :)
> 

HAHAHAH August 2008.

sigh.

-sv


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