Growth of Ubuntu Distributed Development

[Scott Kitterman]

On Monday, July 19, 2010 05:59:22 pm Francis J. Lacoste wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm interested in getting an understanding whether the usage of UDD is
> growing or not.
> 
> According to the stats I get from LP usage, we are seeing more and more
> package branches being created, but not necessarily many more people using
> it.
> 
> Reviewing the last four months, specifically we went from
> 
> ~600 to ~900 package branches (non-official)
> ~100 to ~150 registrants
> ~300 to ~500 source packages with branches
> 
> So roughly a 50% increase across all dimensions.
> 
> But the average number of people registering new branches within the last
> month is kind of stable at ~40 evenly split between Canonical and non-
> Canonical folks.
> 
> My theory is that usage is increasing but among a core group of people. So
> a few more people try it out, but haven't persisted in making the switch.
> But the ~15-25 people how are really using it are using it more.
> 
> Does that seem consistent with your views of the current usage? What is
> blocking more users from jumping on the UDD bandwagon?
> 
> Let me know your thoughts.

It's not apparent to me that enough has changed since I wrote this:

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-distributed-devel/2010-
January/000373.html

to warrant giving it another try.

Scott K