Growth of Ubuntu Distributed Development

[James Westby]

On Mon, 19 Jul 2010 17:59:22 -0400, "Francis J. Lacoste" <francis.lacoste at canonical.com> 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.

A 50% increase in registrants isn't more people using it?

> 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?

This is consistent with my impression of the current usage, with more
people picking it up, but not in huge numbers.

Bear in mind that with a couple of hundred active Ubuntu developers
(core-dev, motu, contributors, etc.) we won't see huge numbers unless we
start having a large impact on the number of people who contribute. I
would like to do that, but unless we can get a majority of existing
contributors happy with using it then I'm not sure we can.

Thanks,

James