essentially as a informatics science degree holder i know what it is, how to do it. for web indexing, crawling and such.
wrt. to our download stats. for a start we don't know how reliable the numbers of sf.net really are. for the sake of argument let's assume they are correct. snapshots: snapshot download stats look healthy to me. that most are downloaded at least one time smells like a robot. but that stopped in between and really makes no difference. maybe somebody mirrored us for a short while. releases: we seem to have 3000 downloads a month for the last year (whole '/OpenJUMP'). 1.6.3 as a long standing release got ca. downloads/month 1000 - OpenJUMP-Installer-1.6.3-r3576-CORE.exe 250 - OpenJUMP-Installer-1.6.3-r3576-CORE.jar 400 - OpenJUMP-Installer-1.6.3-r3576-PLUS.exe 150 - OpenJUMP-Installer-1.6.3-r3576-PLUS.jar 75 - OpenJUMP-Portable-1.6.3-r3576-CORE.zip 200 - OpenJUMP-Portable-1.6.3-r3576-PLUS.zip 40 - OpenJUMP-1.6.3-r3576-apidocs.zip 175 - OpenJUMP-1.6.3-r3576-src.zip 100 - readme.txt which accumulates to ca. 2300 downloads/month only. dunno where the missing 700 downloads are but probably older releases or just an accounting error of sf.net . anyway, 2000 downloads a month does not seem excessive to me. the internet is big and we've got a quality _free_ product. also the numbers are believably spread over countries https://sourceforge.net/projects/jump-pilot/files/OpenJUMP/stats/map?dates=2013-05-22%20to%202014-05-22 where we develop or have proper language support. in conclusion i am inclined to believe that we are heavily used or at least tried out. i think trial takes a big bite because these users might just not use OJ frequently or at all. they might just wanna have a look and then continue to use their expensively licensed proprietary software. my other side project for example http://duply.net/ has around 400 monthly downloads but targets a much more select usership. admins running backups on linux from shell, mainly servers or maybe nas systems. additionally it gets packaged in several distros so these numbers wont show up. comparing the numbers i don't feel that OJ as a desktop software offered for three major OS's is downloaded excessively but competitively well. wrt. user feedback. duply does generate the occasional bug report maybe once a month (12 per year) and feature requests or patches. considering the nature of duply users (admins, programmers ...), which are presumably more engaged and motivated, this is still the real world turnout. truth is, people are consumers.. for example - duplicity, the software to which duply is a frontend, is used as primary backup software on Ubuntu! i am helping with duplicity as well and can say that the throughput of tickets, mailing list and patches is easily manageable for one person. the "community" seems to be usually not interested in involvement, unfortunately. finally, we should probably consider making PLUS the default download distro because it seem to be quite popular although not actively featured. ..some thoughts ..ede PS: http://www.dilbert.com/fast/2014-05-22/ On 22.05.2014 18:40, Stefan Steiniger wrote: > I wonder what is your knowledge on "robot-created-downloads"? > > stefan > > Am 21.05.14 05:24, schrieb edgar.sol...@web.de: >> On 21.05.2014 00:44, Stefan Steiniger wrote: >>> but so many robots - in different countries ;) >>> I would think we may have only 1/10th robot download, if. >>> Maybe Ede knows more? >> >> how do you mean? ..ede >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> "Accelerate Dev Cycles with Automated Cross-Browser Testing - For FREE >> Instantly run your Selenium tests across 300+ browser/OS combos. >> Get unparalleled scalability from the best Selenium testing platform >> available >> Simple to use. 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