On Dec 2, 11:11 pm, Yarko Tymciurak <resultsinsoftw...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Dec 2, 11:00 pm, mdipierro <mdipie...@cs.depaul.edu> wrote: > > > Yarko I disagree. Most of our bug reports about new features being > > tested by users. We use this mailing list not just to provide help > > about stable version but also to debug trunk version and discuss new > > features. We also have attracted a lot of non-python programmers who, > > of course, have questions. > > So, if I understand, your point is that group activity is a _good_ > predictor of tool use.
No. I believe tool usage is proportional to group membership but the proportionality factor is different for every tool. For some tools it is 1 (every user is a group member and every group member is a user), for some tools it is 0 (there are user but no group members). For web2py it is somewhere in the middle but I would be very surprised by the proportionality factor it not a constant over time for each one project. The most important thing I see in the plot I posted is that users' growth is a smooth exponential and there are no significant jumps. I interpret this with the fact that web2py is not spreading because of major news (which happens a specific times and would cause jumps as in the stock market) but, instead, it is spreading by worth of mouth. We could actually compute from the plot the probability that one of you will convert a new user to web2py within the next year (and I encourage my students to compute it!). Yarko, please try write shorter emails. I find myself spending a considerable amount of my life reading your emails. I enjoy it but I cannot afford it. ;-) Massimo -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To post to this group, send email to web...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/web2py?hl=en.
