Le jeudi 20 février 2020, 18:39:52 CET Samuel Thibault a écrit : > Alfred M. Szmidt, le jeu. 20 févr. 2020 12:32:16 -0500, a ecrit: > > > > Our concern is that at some point GNU may be just completely > > > > unknown > > > > to free software enthousiasts. As in, when you'd ask people > > > > what free > > > > software is about, they would answer "ah, yes, the stuff on > > > > github, > > > > right". > > > > > > Okay, sure. But going back to Eli's point, the development > > > activity of > > > individual projects is determined by individual project's > > > members, and is rarely affected by the actions of the > > > leadership. > > > > The activity by itself, yes, but the choice of where to start a new > > project, or starting contributing an existing project, leadership > > does > > have a lot of importance. > > > > How does that have to do with the overall project leadership, which > > hasn't changed significantly over the years, and yet had significant > > growth in new projects for several decades (if we take the graphs by > > Wingo at face value). > > "Significant growth" is very little compared to the huge growth that can > be seen on other platforms.
So when measuring we should only dare to measure GNU stuff in comparison with other software projects and platforms. Very interesting. > I'm not saying that GNU will necessarily stop growing and decline. What > I'm afraid is that it might just become insignificant compared to > others, and thus its voice for the 4 freedoms become less and less > heard. That’s a reasonable fear, so that should be what should have been measured in the metrics discussed in this thread.