On Wed, 21 May 2008, Sverre Rabbelier wrote: > On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 12:07 AM, Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Doing it as a percentage is kind of odd; it demonstrates that using > > version control is decreasing in popularity as more and more people who > > don't use version control submit votes. All of the version control systems > > show an upward trend in number of users, but most of them are not growing > > as much as the market is shrinking. Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to > > be a way to get the people who use each of them as a percentage of people > > who use any of them, which is what you want for "market share". > > Ah, you are right, I didn't analyse the graph enough, I thought > percent would show what you described above, obviously it doesn't > though as the values don't add up to 100%. Even so, I think this is a > better graph: > http://tinyurl.com/4hu2cn Yeah, that's the one I thought was informative. > Since it shows users that regularly use the package, instead of user > that have it installed. Considering that these days distro's have a > lot of stuff pre-installed if you go with the "coders packages" the > usage votes give a better picture than looking at who has it installed > (which includes people that don't use the package at all). That graph > shows that in the end of 2006 SVN became more popular than CVS, > whereas the one from Teemu (http://tinyurl.com/4vpqzg) does not show > that, probalby because a lot of people have it installed, but don't > use it. Yeah, also a lot of people have CVS installed from when they used it, but they not use something different, but haven't built new computers without it. > It would be interesting if we could link the grow spurts from > http://tinyurl.com/4hu2cn to programming-related events, something > that might have caused people to suddenly use a VCS a lot more (for > example the one in CVS's line from 05-2007 till 07-2007). I think that around 05-2007, a lot more people started voting, largely non-coders, but also coders. In the percentage, there's a sharp drop where that sharp rise is. -Daniel *This .sig left intentionally blank* -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
