On Friday 2017-10-27 09:06, Richard Brown wrote:
On 27 October 2017 at 08:20, Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> wrote:
Richard Brown composed on 2017-10-26 15:39 (UTC+0200):
- our number of monthly downloads of our distributions had steadily declined - our number of downloads around each release had steadily declined, - our number of unique users of our official download repos had steadily increased
Was the competence of Zypper taken into consideration here? I can't remember the last time I did an offline upgrade
Indeed, of course we took it into consideration. It's simple logic really - You can make one absolute conclusion - less people downloading the ISO's means less potential new users and contributors. You do not gain new users from 'zypper dup'
I think you are quite mistaken on that one. New users can get their system without anyone downloading any ISO file. What happens these days is that existing system images get cloned. Think AWS, or local containers. Those non-graphic modes of operation are very important, given the target user group you say:
focusing openSUSE's messaging more towards SysAdmins, Developers & Power Users
Counting unique UUIDs is a must. If you only look at .iso file requests, you are only looking at a subset of openSUSE installations, where installation by ISO was the faster or only alternative over other forms of system population. Technical PS: A system need not be cloned, nor "dup"ed; one can make a barren container (needs a bit of manual afterwork) with just "install" too: cp -a /etc/zypp/repos.d/ /new/etc/zypp/ zypper -R /new install abcdef -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner@opensuse.org