On Tue, 18 Apr 2023 at 06:49, Jan Lahoda <lah...@gmail.com> wrote: > I apologize for being contrarian, but since the index download started for > me (again) while on a bus with very poor internet connection, I guess I > should tell you my view. ... > To be honest, it never seemed very polite to me to download and process so > much without asking.
+1 - I do think that more control and explicit information before first run would be good. I do a lot of testing during releases with userdirs in /tmp - I hate to think how many GBs I've downloaded there. > If I consider there would be (only) 10 000 > installations of NetBeans, Let's not be quite that pessimistic! ;-) There have been 1.5 million* downloads of various NetBeans 17 binaries so far from ASF infrastructure, never mind other sources, community installers, etc. Of course, that increases your other figures too! * or 0.5 million unique IPs, so probably somewhere in between - access to stats for people with Apache account at https://logging1-he-de.apache.org/stats/ Best wishes, Neil --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@netbeans.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@netbeans.apache.org For further information about the NetBeans mailing lists, visit: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/Mailing+lists
