Chris Colman <chr...@stepaheadsoftware.com> Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 2:41 PM: >> >> The 'popularity' test is very vague but I understand it's purpose, >> they want to ensure that they use products that are widely used >> and have an active user community: which is very true of Wicket. >> Does anyone have some numbers on this? Like how many Wicket developers >> there are, or how many websites are Wicket driven? ...
Jeremy Thomerson <jer...@wickettraining.com> Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 2:53 PM: > There's no way to quantify this metric. ... There is a page on > the wiki that lists a fraction of the sites using Wicket. > https://cwiki.apache.org/WICKET/websites-based-on-wicket.html That page would help, but a mere fraction of the sites might give the wrong idea. Jeremy: > Ultimately, I would direct them away from this. It doesn't *actually* > matter. What matters is this (in roughly this order): > > 1. Pick a technology that fits your needs > 2. Pick a technology that is productive > 3. Pick a technology that, when you hit a stumbling block, you can get > help with. > > You've already demonstrated one and two. Not really. He has yet to demonstrated that Wicket meets their popularity needs. In lieu of having them subscribe to the message list, maybe he can direct them to the archived messages on Nabble. Is there a way a program could extract a count of the participants (i.e. distinct e-mail addresses) in the archived mailing list for a variety of time periods (to show growth in user base)? --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@wicket.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@wicket.apache.org
