On Mon, Jul 26, 2021 at 1:16 PM Mark Thomas <ma...@apache.org> wrote:
> On 26/07/2021 12:13, Coty Sutherland wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I'm curious about whether or not we have/can get some information about > the > > usage of Tomcat out in the wild. Things like download count across > various > > versions (including archived version downloads) for the last few years, > svn > > history and GitHub stats, project website visitors, committer numbers > (and > > some other info which I can get from the regular board reports), counts > of > > tomcat-users list unique topics, etc. I'd like to compile data into a > > community interest report (or something like that) and try to draw some > > insights on which way the Tomcat project is trending. I would also be > > looking to include adoption outside of just the vanilla ASF distro, like > > the most popular Tomcat Docker container, Ansible collection, tomcat > > package downloads from any OS that has the data available, etc. > > > > Does anyone think that such a report has value? Is there already > something > > like this in existence somewhere (there is an annual jrebel technology > > report like https://www.jrebel.com/blog/2020-java-technology-report > which > > is pretty cool, but it's a survey)? Feel free to tell me that this > > undertaking has little value and I can move on to something else :) > > Thoughts? > > In no particular order. > > There is Apache Kibble > https://kibble.apache.org/ > The live demo uses ASF data. > > The mirror network makes download stats tricky. > Yeah, I was thinking that would be the hardest datapoint to try and capture. > We can get Maven central stats via repository.a.o > > In terms of whether a report has value, more insight into the community > is good. The users mailing list is an incredibly small proportion of the > active Tomcat users. Anything that provides us with a better > understanding of the wider community can only help. I'd be particularly > interested in things we could do to broaden our reach. That may well > create some interesting debate on how to best do that. > OK, I'll start gathering some data and circle back at some point :) Thanks for the affirmation. > Mark > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org > >
