Good point.  The stats can favor big, complex projects where lots of CVS
commits, bug queries on the forums, and bug fixes are necessary.  

When you have a simple, yet powerful framework with a high
power-to-weight ratio (as Jonathan likes to call it) you tend to have
less complex code and fewer bugs which means less "activity" on the
project.

But still, anything above 95% I tend to consider a relatively healthy
project and Wicket is above 99.5% (assuming the stats are correct).

- Jonathan


>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2005-05-25 2:54:51 PM >>>
Jonathan Carlson wrote:

>It appears that the statistics on SourceForge have been fixed. 
Wickets statistics look VERY impressive...
>  
>
I found it pretty amazing that we've accumulated 4000 downloads so far.

We didn't do too much on publicity: no articles, no books, no Tapestry

is evil use Wicket campaign. We did the 4000 downloads by ourselves. 
Half of the downloads come from the last 2 months, so that is also
telling.

I think we owe a lot to Tim Boudreau, who generated a lot of hits at
the 
beginning of april.

>Personally, when evaluating a tool, I tend to put a lot of weight on
>those numbers to determine whether or not a project is thriving or
not.
>  
>
The activity percentage don't do it for me. Almost all projects that
are 
somewhat active are in the 95%+ percentage. That doesn't tell me much.
I 
tend to look at the CVS records: when was the last update for the 
project, how much activity is on the forum and/or mailinglist and 
whether the last release was relatively recent (which reminds me to
work 
on jwebunit sometime soon).

As the statistics are just brought online, I suspect they still have to

fix some bugs, so I wouldn't trust the figures too much...

Martijn



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