Keep up the great work Tobias and Co :-)


On 05/12/13 11:14, Tobias Ellinghaus wrote:
Am Donnerstag, 5. Dezember 2013, 00:29:10 schrieb Michael Below:
Am Mittwoch, den 04.12.2013, 20:28 +0100 schrieb Giacomo Catenazzi:
for debian:
http://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=darktable
Some quick estimates from that: 1% of all Debian installations that
deliver statistics via popcon have darktable installed. In general,
popcon is installed mostly by a certain type of system (enthusiasts,
using testing/unstable more than average), but that is probably also a
bigger part of the people using darktable on Debian.

I didn't find a current estimate for how many people use Debian. In
2010, somebody said there are 1,5 million unique IPs accessing the
security updates. I guess there is a certain number of systems that
doesn't use security updates, or that gets them via local distribution.
So let's say there are 2 million Debian installations today.

Let's say half of the installed systems are comparable to those that
installed popcon, that's 1 million. 1% of that is 10.000. Number of
actual users is probably lower, because people like me tend to install
stuff and never use it. So let's say 5.000 users on Debian? 20-30.000 on
all Linux distributions? As a rough guess?
Let's just assume there are exactly 17 people in the world using darktable.

It doesn't really matter if it's 10 or 10 million. We don't develop this 
software to please as many people as possible or to get new users. Even if we 
lost users due to a change that we consider right we wouldn't lose our sleep 
over.

So feel free to guesstimate our userbase, but since that is more guessing than 
estimating and since there is no way to verify the result I will keep thinking 
that I work for 16 others. ;-)

Cheers

Michael
And you are one of them!

Tobias


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