Re: GNOME: numbers of users, patches/revisions

2011-03-25 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
Allan wrote: What are these metrics intended to indicate? The amount of work that has gone into GNOME 3? Changes since 2.0 don't necessarily map onto that. I also suspect it will be way too difficult to pull out the required numbers for this. You could maybe focus on one or two key modules: line

Re: GNOME: numbers of users, patches/revisions

2011-03-25 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
On 03/25/2011 08:48 AM, Juanjo Marin wrote: El jue, 24-03-2011 a las 16:13 -0400, Sumana Harihareswara escribió: John: How would you feel about an approximation along the lines of "hundreds of thousands of users" (or whatever a verifiably correct order of magnitude is)? I think to say GNOME ha

Re: GNOME: numbers of users, patches/revisions

2011-03-25 Thread Allan Day
Dave Neary wrote: > > "GNOME 3 will reach [number] of users around the world." What's a > > reasonable number to predict? > > Ah, now we're getting into whether GNOME apps & platform + Unity = GNOME > 3. Touchy subject... We're primarily marketing GNOME 3 as the GNOME 3 desktop. It would seem

Re: GNOME: numbers of users, patches/revisions

2011-03-25 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, Sumana Harihareswara wrote: > John: How would you feel about an approximation along the lines of > "hundreds of thousands of users" (or whatever a verifiably correct order > of magnitude is)? Millions or tens of millions is better. Canonical updated their user count to 12 million last year:

Re: GNOME: numbers of users, patches/revisions

2011-03-25 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, Sumana Harihareswara wrote: > I'm working on the press release and I'm finding it hard to figure out: > > About how many users can I claim GNOME has? (To simplify: the desktop, > not the platform.) I was previously asked this question & did a back of the envelope calculation based on guesst

Re: GNOME: numbers of users, patches/revisions

2011-03-25 Thread Allan Day
On Thu, 2011-03-24 at 15:18 -0400, Sumana Harihareswara wrote: > I'm working on the press release and I'm finding it hard to figure out: > > About how many users can I claim GNOME has? (To simplify: the desktop, > not the platform.) > > "GNOME 3 will reach [number] of users around the world."

Re: GNOME: numbers of users, patches/revisions

2011-03-24 Thread John Stowers
On Thu, 2011-03-24 at 16:13 -0400, Sumana Harihareswara wrote: > On 03/24/2011 03:50 PM, John Stowers wrote: > > On Thu, 2011-03-24 at 15:18 -0400, Sumana Harihareswara wrote: > >> I'm working on the press release and I'm finding it hard to figure out: > >> > >> About how many users can I claim GNO

Re: GNOME: numbers of users, patches/revisions

2011-03-24 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
On 03/24/2011 03:50 PM, John Stowers wrote: On Thu, 2011-03-24 at 15:18 -0400, Sumana Harihareswara wrote: I'm working on the press release and I'm finding it hard to figure out: About how many users can I claim GNOME has? (To simplify: the desktop, not the platform.) IMO, if you cannot verif

Re: GNOME: numbers of users, patches/revisions

2011-03-24 Thread John Stowers
On Thu, 2011-03-24 at 15:18 -0400, Sumana Harihareswara wrote: > I'm working on the press release and I'm finding it hard to figure out: > > About how many users can I claim GNOME has? (To simplify: the desktop, > not the platform.) IMO, if you cannot verify it then it is not true. I would lea

GNOME: numbers of users, patches/revisions

2011-03-24 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
I'm working on the press release and I'm finding it hard to figure out: About how many users can I claim GNOME has? (To simplify: the desktop, not the platform.) "GNOME 3 will reach [number] of users around the world." What's a reasonable number to predict? How many patches/code changes h