is 42,000 a lot?

[Martin Pool]

2009/10/9 Ian Clatworthy <ian.clatworthy at canonical.com>:
> Emma Jane Hogbin wrote:
>
>> 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").
>
> Our primary competitors are Subversion, Git and Mercurial - these aren't
> consumer products (like Firefox or iTunes). The potential audience is
> completely different and 42k is a healthy number.
>
>> 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.
>
> We may reword things but the user count is staying. Canonical wants to
> get the word out that Bazaar is well loved and that projects can adopt
> it without fear. We aren't as popular as Git yet but all 3 main DVCS
> products are *much* less popular than Subversion (so choosing on
> popularity alone isn't smart).

I think it's good too.

>
> The figure is taken from the download count for bzr 1.13 (the version in
> Ubuntu 9.04). It *only* covers users downloading the Windows installer,
> OS X installer or tar.gz. There's *another* 38,000 users who have
> installed Bazaar via a package manager on Ubuntu (see popcon.ubuntu.com)
> which we're leaving out in the name of being conservative. I'll put
> together a Wiki page today explaining the number's origin.

Or maybe a post on the Bazaar team blog, and then put a (quite small)
link to it from those numbers.

-- 
Martin <http://launchpad.net/~mbp/>