On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 03:06:12PM -0400, Rob Weir wrote: > I've been looking at the upgrade numbers, the downloads that are > triggered from upgrade notifications in the OpenOffice client. > Although we are not tracking how many times such notifications pop up > in the OpenOffice client we do know from Google Analytics how many > users click the link to get more information on the update, and how > many of these users actually download the upgrade. > > The trends have been pretty steady, a slight peak when a release is > initially made, but a lingering steady state of upgrade requests even > several weeks later. > > For example, let's look at the status for a single day, last > Wednesday, Sept. 19th. > > On that date we had 164,752 total downloads of AOO. Of those > downloads, it looks like 54% of them come from upgrading users. The > remainder are either from new users, or existing users that went to > the website directly rather than from an upgrade notification. (No > easy way of distinguishing these two). > > The interesting thing is the breakdown by OpenOffice client version. > > For the upgrade installs on Sept 19th we see: > > 31% of upgrades were from AOO 3.4.0 > > 52% of upgrades were from OOo 3.3.0 > > 15% of upgrades were from OOo 3.2.1 > > 3% of upgrades were from OOo 3.2.0 > > Note the OOo 3.3.0 numbers. Nearly 4 months after AOO 3.4 was > released we are still getting large numbers of OOo 3.3.0 users > receiving and responding to upgrade notifications, nearly 20,000/day. > > I'm not sure how to explain this. Upgrade notifications should > surface once a week. > > Maybe:
With free software, many people often wait for micro releases, which usually are bug fixes releases. Regards -- Ariel Constenla-Haile La Plata, Argentina
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