Re: Rough estimate of number of downloads per year/month/day?

On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 10:38 AM, damien clochard <damien(at)dalibo(dot)info> wrote:
>
>>
>> I thinks we need to define new metrics to monitor the evolution of the
>> project in the industry. It's not easy but there must some way to mesure
>> that. For example, the job trends or ML traffic could be more
>> informative that the download numbers...
>>
>> http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends?q=postgres%2C++oracle&l=&relative=1
>> http://markmail.blogspot.fr/2008/02/postgresql-more-traffic-than-mysql-and.html
>>
>
> I also found this :
> http://qa.debian.org/popcon-graph.php?packages=postgresql-8.4+postgresql-9.0+postgresql-9.1+postgresql-9.2&show_installed=on&want_legend=on&want_ticks=on&from_date=2007-07-01&to_date=&hlght_date=&date_fmt=%25Y-%25m&beenhere=1
>
> I should have thought about it earlier... The numbers are pretty low and
> they're quite debian-specific (8.4 is dominant because of Squeeze). but
> my guess is that the trends may be the same for other distributions. I
> don't know if there's similar stats for other distributions, if you have
> similar links for Ubuntu, Arch or CentOS please share :)

I'd say they're quite useless. AFAIK it requires specific opt-in. And
as an example, while we have many clients who run PostgreSQL on
Debian, I'm pretty sure not a single one is counted there. And I think
looking at the trend is wrong too - because the more installations you
get in large companies etc, the less likely are they to opt-in.

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