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 -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
