is 42,000 a lot?

[Emma Jane Hogbin]

On Thursday 08 October 2009 1:37:00 pm John Arbash Meinel wrote:
> If you look at 'bzr stats' for bzr.dev itself, and ignore the fact that
> it thinks Robert and I are the same extremely productive person, you can
> see that there are definitely primary contributors, secondary
> contributors, and a *really* long tail.

It's specifically the long tail that I think we're missing out on. I'm sure 
there are lots of folks who use Bazaar without being a "contributor" to 
anything. (I know this to be true, because I've gotten a couple of sys admins 
hooked on it.) 

Compare this to http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/stats/
where they have: 305,926,189 downloads (note that it's downloads counted, not 
"contributors"). 

I'd be +1 for removing the number of people using Bazaar on the front page of 
the site and listing only the number of projects using Bazaar.

regards,
emma

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