Yes, it's hard to know what can conclusively be drawn from the raw totals. I do think trends and ratios (e.g. Py2 vs. Py3) will, however, roughly reflect underlying usage (which itself is ambiguously defined).
On Thu, Apr 9, 2020 at 7:30 PM Kenneth Knowles <[email protected]> wrote: > Yea, interpreting the raw absolute number is tricky. You can probably > manage to see certain kinds of trends if you just look at relative numbers. > > Kenn > > On Thu, Apr 9, 2020 at 6:42 PM Austin Bennett <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> @Robert Bradshaw <[email protected]> , you sent that pypi link [1] >> the other day in response to something else, which is what prompted me to >> ask Gris about Maven (based on that link [2], @* Kenneth Knowles >> <[email protected]> ). I recall talking to someone about Maven download >> statistics at ApacheCon. >> >> Perhaps these are not the only sources; happy to explore any/all that >> others may have in mind. Generally (personally) interested in >> understanding our ecosystem, trends, etc. >> >> Naturally, there is a ton open to interpretation, even if we had absolute >> raw data (down to IP/account/etc, which would also have ManyIps to one >> user, as well as many users to one IP, in the case of uses on corporate >> networks). Getting distinct users, for instance, would be incredibly >> challenging; not sure how/whether other projects even do such things. >> >> [1] https://pypistats.org/packages/apache-beam >> [2] >> https://blog.sonatype.com/2010/12/now-available-central-download-statistics-for-oss-projects/ >> >> On Thu, Apr 9, 2020 at 4:02 PM Kenneth Knowles <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> I found some info from 2010 [1] that it was available to anyone with >>> deploy permission. The instructions still work. >>> >>> Kenn >>> >>> [1] >>> https://blog.sonatype.com/2010/12/now-available-central-download-statistics-for-oss-projects/ >>> >>> On Thu, Apr 9, 2020 at 3:41 PM Robert Bradshaw <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> For Python, there's https://pypistats.org/packages/apache-beam . It's >>>> unclear how accurate these are, and how many of these downloads represent >>>> users vs. tools (e.g. setting up environments for continuous testing). >>>> >>>> On Thu, Apr 9, 2020 at 3:29 PM Griselda Cuevas <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Hi folks - I'm interested in knowing more about Beam's adoption >>>>> through user downloads. >>>>> >>>>> Do you know what's the protocol to access Maven and check on Java >>>>> downloads? >>>>> >>>>> Also - do you have any other recos on how to measure the project's >>>>> adoption evolution? >>>>> >>>>> Thanks! >>>>> G >>>>> >>>>
