Author: Alex Gaynor <[email protected]> Branch: extradoc Changeset: r4050:1b7919a194e1 Date: 2012-01-21 16:16 -0600 http://bitbucket.org/pypy/extradoc/changeset/1b7919a194e1/
Log: english and a conclusion diff --git a/blog/draft/pypy-2011.rst b/blog/draft/pypy-2011.rst --- a/blog/draft/pypy-2011.rst +++ b/blog/draft/pypy-2011.rst @@ -3,35 +3,44 @@ Hello everyone. -PyPy development is fast, sometimes very fast. We try to do 3-4 releases a year -and yet a lot of time when someone complains about the last release being slow -we usually say "oh, but it's the release, that was AGES ago". That makes -something as big as summarizing a year next to impossible, but using my -external IQ amplifiers like internet and hg log, I will try to provide you -with some semi-serious statistics: +PyPy's development is fast, sometimes very fast. We try to do 3-4 releases a +year and still many times when someone complains about the latest release being +slow we usually say "oh, that release was AGES ago". This makes something as +big as summarizing a year next to impossible, but using my external IQ +amplifiers, like internet and hg log, I will try to provide you with some +semi-serious statistics: -* We made 3 releases last year, boringly, 1.5, 1.6 and 1.7 +* We did 3 releases last year, boringly named, 1.5, 1.6 and 1.7 -* Number of visitors on pypy.org grew from about 200 to 800 per day (averaged - weekly) +* The number of visitors on pypy.org grew from about 200 to 800 per day + (averaged weekly) * We spoke at 15 conferences/meetups + (XXX: can we put a list in a comment to be sure it's correct) -* We made 10660 commits, or 29 per day (mostly typos ;-) +* We made 10660 commits, or 29 per day (mostly typos ;-)) * We published 43 blog posts, keeping you entertained almost weekly -* We made PyPy over 2x faster (on a select set of benchmarks), +* We made PyPy over 2x faster (on a select set of benchmarks), see the `1.4 and nightly`_ comparison -* We got 71 new people which did at least one commit in the PyPy repository +* 71 brand new people contributed at least one commit to the PyPy repository. (XXX: this is what I got by doing wc on contributors.txt at 2011-01-01 and the current contributors.rst, but we still need to update the latter) -* We made PyPy 17x more compatible (of course this is unmeasurable, so why - not just claim it) +* We made PyPy 17x more compatible (of course this is not measurable, so we're + going to claim it!) -* We probably have [XXX insert unicode for infinity] infinitely many times more users now, since noone used - 1.4 in production +* We have [XXX insert unicode for infinity] infinitely many times more users + now, since no one used 1.4 in production + +2011 was a very exciting year for us. But we're pretty sure 2012 is going to be +even more exciting! So watch this space for more exciting news, try PyPy out on +your projects, and, as always, we invite you to join us and contribute to PyPy +in any way you can. + +Signed, +The PyPy Developers .. _`1.4 and nightly` http://speed.pypy.org/comparison/?exe=1%2B172%2C1%2BL%2Bdefault&ben=1%2C34%2C27%2C2%2C25%2C3%2C4%2C5%2C22%2C6%2C39%2C7%2C8%2C23%2C24%2C9%2C10%2C11%2C12%2C13%2C14%2C15%2C35%2C36%2C37%2C38%2C16%2C28%2C30%2C32%2C29%2C33%2C17%2C18%2C19%2C20&env=1%2C2&hor=true&bas=1%2B172&chart=normal+bars _______________________________________________ pypy-commit mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pypy-commit
