Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (761 mails)

[Ilya Chernykh <anixxsus@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sunday 01 April 2012 04:18:34 Sven Burmeister wrote:

> KDE3 has 12 million downloads with 450 packages and hence 27,000 downloads 
> per 
> package. 

This is incorrect. I think the most packages are not used at all (like 
kde3-kmameleon) 
while the packages like kdebase3 are the most popular. No user needs all 
KDE:KDE3 packages.

> Assuming the same amount of changes, results in 1% of openSUSE users  
> using that repo (assuming 1.2 Mio) and 0,7% assuming 2 Mio oS users.
>
> Java 100,000,000 downloads, 200 packages, 500,000 downloads per package in 
> three weeks. And thus with the same numbers as above 20% of the oS users, 
> 12,5% respectively.

It is incorrect to devide by the number of packages.

> I'm not sure these download numbers can be used to prove anything without a 
> lot more data as to where they come from and what they represent, how they 
> depend on the number of packages in a repo, how often those packages get a 
> new 
> build number and thus increase the download number etc.


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