On 04/09/2011, at 2:40, Rob Weir <robw...@apache.org> wrote: > To help prioritize the list migration efforts, I've collected numbers > from the legacy OOo lists. Looking at 2011 posts, year to date, these > are the average posts/day for the most-used lists. > > I've arbitrarily cut-off the lost at lists having more than one post > every other day. There are 332 lists overall that I could find, most > of them getting little to no traffic. To put these numbers in > perspective note that our ooo-dev list averages 59 posts per day. So > we know what that traffic feels like. If we add up all of the top > 100 OOo lists, excluding the Bugzilla notifications, they add up to 62 > posts/day average. > > So I think this argues strongly for list consolidation. Direct all > user-related lists to ooo-users and project-related lists to ooo-dev. > > List Posts/day > org.openoffice.allbugs 54.8 > org.openoffice.users 9.0 > org.openoffice.de.users 7.9 > org.openoffice.de.dev 4.1 > org.openoffice.fr.users 3.6 > org.openoffice.it.utenti 3.2 > org.openoffice.dev 3.2 > org.openoffice.user-faq.authors 2.9 > org.openoffice.discuss 2.5 > org.openoffice.l10n.dev 1.6 > org.openoffice.dba.needsconfirm 1.3 > org.openoffice.es.discuss_es 1.2 > org.openoffice.marketing.dev 1.2 > org.openoffice.api.dev 1.1 > org.openoffice.ja.discuss 1.0 > org.openoffice.releases 0.9 > org.openoffice.allcvs 0.9 > org.openoffice.qa.dev 0.9 > org.openoffice.es.dev 0.9 > org.openoffice.fi.users 0.9 > org.openoffice.distribution.dev 0.8 > org.openoffice.cws-announce 0.8 > org.openoffice.br-pt.usuarios 0.7 > org.openoffice.nl.gebruikers 0.7 > org.openoffice.es.users 0.7 > org.openoffice.it.localizzazione 0.7 > org.openoffice.distribution.cdrom 0.6
IMO, looking at traffic on 2011 lists gives a false impression, at least when averaged. I can only speak for the two active lists at documentation (dev and authors), but they are quite active when we are working on docs for a release but very quiet at other times. And authors is now further skewed because I've been asking people to leave that list for a new list at ODFAuthors, in preparation for shutdown of the OOo lists. BTW, I'm fascinated that there is traffic listed for org.openoffice.user-faq.authors, because I thought that list had been closed when org.openoffice.documentation.authors was started, several years ago. Perhaps the former was renamed for public consumption. --Jean
