On Thu, 2011-03-24 at 15:18 -0400, Sumana Harihareswara wrote: > I'm working on the press release and I'm finding it hard to figure out: > > About how many users can I claim GNOME has? (To simplify: the desktop, > not the platform.) > > "GNOME 3 will reach [number] of users around the world." What's a > reasonable number to predict?
Right now, it is extremely uncertain how many people will end up using the GNOME 3 desktop. Fedora is the only distro I know of that is planning to ship it by default. Maybe leave that nugget out? ;) > How many patches/code changes have been committed since the 2.0 release > 9 years ago? (Tried viewing the repos, can't figure out how to get a > total like this.) What are these metrics intended to indicate? The amount of work that has gone into GNOME 3? Changes since 2.0 don't necessarily map onto that. I also suspect it will be way too difficult to pull out the required numbers for this. You could maybe focus on one or two key modules: lines of code changed in GNOME Shell since it began, for instance, or the amount of changes between Gtk+2 and Gtk+3. It's not quite as good, I know... Allan -- Blog: http://afaikblog.wordpress.com/ IRC: aday on irc.gnome.org -- marketing-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
