Hi, 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.)
I was previously asked this question & did a back of the envelope calculation based on guesstimates. The bottom line was working from Ubuntu's market share & their announced user numbers, extrapolating across distributions that include GNOME by default, I got to somewhere in the region of 12 to 15 million users, back in 2008. Basically, Canonical announced 8 million users a few years back, and with Ubuntu market share (guessed from various Linux user surveys, which is not a random population), that translated into over 12 million GNOME users. Somehow I agree with John, calling out our user base is in some sense setting up market share as the way we keep score, when clearly it isn't. > "GNOME 3 will reach [number] of users around the world." What's a > reasonable number to predict? Ah, now we're getting into whether GNOME apps & platform + Unity = GNOME 3. Touchy subject... > 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.) You can make a list of the modules you're counting, do a git log -M for each of them, concatenate the results, and then run gitdm on the result. Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Neary GNOME Foundation member [email protected] -- marketing-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
