On Wed, 04 Jan 2012 16:56:24 -0430 "Patrick O'Callaghan" <pocallag...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2012-01-04 at 13:23 +0000, Alan Cox wrote: > > > No doubt some people have done so, but "most people"? Do you have > > > information on this? Enquiring minds want to know. > > > > Plot graphs of active contributors to this list and their active time > > on > > the list before leaving, compare with the power curve you got from > > doing > > it with old data. It speaks volumes. > > > Well for one thing not all the membership actually posts, and for > another people may post for a while and then not. Unless you have access > to the list membership database, I'd say the data was too noisy for such > a firm conclusion. List membership databases are not generally useful - a lot of list memberships are actually dead, spamtrapped or just unread and ignored. Now it could be the list is full of people but everyone has stopped posting. Somehow I doubt that. The forums on the other hand seem to be booming - which is good, and perhaps as much a demographic and technological shift as anything else ? Alan -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
