> On May 22, 2016, at 12:09 AM, Hynek Schlawack <h...@ox.cx> wrote: > > >>>> A lot of projects do follow this workflow, and maybe it will be fine for >>>> us. The real question is; is FreeBSD support really worth it for the cost >>>> to contributors, since that's the only platform we currently support but >>>> can't test? >>> >>> I'm guessing that we have more FreeBSD users than Windows users ;) >> >> >> I realize it can feel like that sometimes, but Google Analytics suggests the >> large majority of our visitors (45%) are on Windows. By contrast, 0.05% are >> on FreeBSD. Granted, that's a very high percentage of FreeBSD clients for >> the Internet at large, but nevertheless, I think your perspective may be >> slightly statistically skewed. > > I don’t think there’s a meaningful correlation between what people use to > browse docs vs. what people run Twisted on. > > E.g. Netflix & WhatsApp run on FreeBSD; do you think their tech staff has > FreeBSD on their desktops? :)
The existence of Netflix & WhatsApp doesn't indicate no correlation, just not a perfect correlation :). Although I suppose I'm being unfair there in that some of the Windows users represent actual FreeBSD users as well. Nevertheless, I think Windows consumers are less frequently acculturated to speaking up in open-source land, so if anything we are underestimating their prevalence. Unrelatedly, the existence of such high-profile FreeBSD users is encouraging :). Perhaps this is more important to keep in the critical path than I was assuming. -glyph
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