On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 19:41, Mike McGrath <mmcgrath@xxxxxxxxxx> 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 :) My graphic is not up to date but similar... http://smooge.fedorapeople.org/images/growth-over-time.png I need to update the numbers to after may and get the data 'cleaner' and my lines darker because mmcgrath's looks better than mine. -- Stephen J Smoogen. “The core skill of innovators is error recovery, not failure avoidance.” Randy Nelson, President of Pixar University. "We have a strategic plan. It's called doing things."" — Herb Kelleher, founder Southwest Airlines -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
