090903 Mark Knecht wrote: > I'm wondering whether these stats are correct? > They are captured from http://archives.gentoo.org/ > I find them a bit disappointing. I was surprised > how much email traffic has fallen off for the Gentoo lists > over the last couple of years. I suspect some of this > is folks moving to less technical environments - maybe Ubuntu or Arch - > but still I was surprised that it was something like a 60 % drop > since the high in 2006. I was also surprised at the drop on gentoo-dev > as it correlates with my impression of bugs not being addressed as fast. > > gentoo-dev gentoo-user gentoo-amd64 > 2009 3743 11126 1519 > 2008 5379 15269 1418 > 2007 8480 13643 1977 > 2006 10184 25954 4038 > 2005 9055 15378 1880 > 2004 8569 545 27 > 2003 8324 > 2002 8156 > 2001 5679 > 2000 4
First, you need to adjust 2009 by 3/2 , ie 2009 5615 16689 2279 which shows a significant increase this year in all 3 categories. Otherwise, I agree with the other comments, ie that Gentoo has matured: Portage is more user-friendly, big changes like Udev have been accomplished, people who shouldn't be using Gentoo have dropped out & the few devs who were responsible have stopped flaming one another (or perhaps do so on a non-public list somewhere else); it may also be true that the Forum has taken away a lot of users, who seem on average younger (it sounds like a high-school cafeteria). Quality is what matters & I'ld say it has improved in recent years. -- ========================,,============================================ SUPPORT ___________//___ Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT `-O----------O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca
