I recently started a download of all of the AOO 4.1.2 rc2 candidates, then see how long it was going to take and let it run overnight. In the morning, the download had failed to get them all.
What struck me however is how big the downloads are. There are full pre-built, installable binaries for 41 separate languages, and separately-introducible smaller language packs for each of them as well. The pre-built binaries for each single language take 1s gigabyte, in six sets: 4 flavors for Linux, taking 67% 1 flavor for MacOS, for 18% 1 flavor for Windows (win32 x86), for 15%. Yet the popularity of pre-built binaries, based on download statistics, is inverted, with about 88% for Windows, 9% for MacOS, and 3% for everything else. Now 3.2% (the actual fraction) of 41 million downloads of AOO 4.1.1 is still 1.3 million that include those Linux cases. QUESTION: Considering only pre-built binaries for downloading, my question is, when is it time to reduce those that represent inordinate demands to the needs for QA, distribution, and support? EXCLUDED: 1. This question is not about the relative use of pre-built full binaries for each of 41 languages. There are other questions we could ask about that. (The language packs for given languages are much smaller than the full binaries though, taking about 20MB per flavor.) 2. This question is not about the source codes and the SDK. It is also not about the value of building and testing for different platforms. It is only about distributing pre-built binaries. I suspect there are more details, and better questions, that could be raised. I'm all ears. What are your concerns? What do you see being overlooked in this calculus? - Dennis > -----Original Message----- > From: Dennis E. Hamilton [mailto:dennis.hamil...@acm.org] > Sent: Wednesday, September 23, 2015 18:38 > To: dev@openoffice.apache.org > Subject: RE: [DISCUSS] Apache OpenOffice ODF in the Marketplace - > Downloading > > Here is a rough, top-level view of Apache OpenOffice by the operating > systems it is downloaded for. This should be no surprise. To have some > grounding on the immediate situation, here are the downloading > statistics of Apache OpenOffice 4.1.1 so far. > > From Sourceforge, > <http://sourceforge.net/projects/openofficeorg.mirror/files/4.1.1/stats/ > os?dates=2014-08-01+to+2015-08-31>. > > Of the 41 million downloads that have occurred since release of 4.1.1, > until the end of August, > > 87.7% are for Windows > 9.1% are for Macintosh > 3.2% is everything else, including Linux > [ ... ] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
