Hi, I'm wondering whether these stats are correct? They are captured from this page:
http://archives.gentoo.org/ If these stats are both correct and complete then I find them interesting, and maybe a bit disappointing. If they are incorrect then nothing below matters. Not meaning to cause too much of a hubbub but I was surprised at how much email traffic has fallen off for the Gentoo lists over the last couple of years. I suspect that some of this is folks moving to less technical environments - maybe Ubuntu or Arch - but still I was surprised that it was something like a 60% drop since the high in 2006. I was also surprised at the drop off on gentoo-dev as it sort of correlates with my impression of bugs not being addressed as fast these days. Again, I don't want to cause some sort of flame war here. I personally love the distro and as I look at building a new i5 or i7 based machine I suspect it will be much faster to build and maintain Gentoo. I'd like to see the traffic growing, not falling. Maybe someone has written something on this already? Just observing, Mark gentoo-dev 2009, 3743 emails 2008, 5379 emails 2007, 8480 emails 2006, 10184 emails 2005, 9055 emails 2004, 8569 emails 2003, 8324 emails 2002, 8156 emails 2001, 5679 emails 2000, 4 emails gentoo-user 2009, 11126 emails 2008, 15269 emails 2007, 13643 emails 2006, 25954 emails 2005, 15378 emails 2004, 545 emails gentoo-amd64 2009, 1519 emails 2008, 1418 emails 2007, 1977 emails 2006, 4038 emails 2005, 1880 emails 2004, 27 emails
