On Mon, 19 Jan 2009, Ben Finney wrote:
You conflate low mailing list activity with “activity problems”. At
s/low/decreasing/
least, that's the best way I can understand your motivation in posting
these reports.
In principle, yes.
If you have a better explanation of what you mean by “activity
problems” and what you think the correlation is with mailing list
posting, that would help the discussion.
I started with comparing:
http://people.debian.org/~tille/liststats/authorstat_jr.pdf
http://people.debian.org/~tille/liststats/authorstat_med.pdf
Here the difference is very clear and the conclusion that Debian Junior
needs definitely help. Other list show similar decreasing or increasing
features.
I compared the graphs to what we currently have
http://lists.debian.org/stats/debian-jr.png
http://lists.debian.org/stats/debian-med.png
and in my opinion the later graph does tell less than the above. I tried
to add a feature to estimate the use of a mailing list. Perhaps you
like another example: Please compare:
http://people.debian.org/~tille/liststats/authorstat_enterprise.pdf
http://lists.debian.org/stats/debian-enterprise.png
which graph shows more clearly that debian-enterprise list has a problem?
I admit that not in all cases my interpretation was correct but
if some people find arguments that I'm wrong and there is no
problem I'm more happy as if I would have stayed silent if there
is a problem on another list. Moreover sometimes it turned out
that a list is driven by a strong team. It makes sense to also
express this fact and I did so (hopefully).
Kind regards
Andreas.
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