Evolution

[Karl Larsen]

Brian McKee wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 4:32 PM, Karl Larsen <k5di at zianet.com> wrote:
>   
>> John Masters wrote:
>>     
>>> On 28 Jul 2008, at 21:13, Karl Larsen wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>       
>>>> Mario Vukelic wrote:
>>>>
>>>>         
>>>>> On Mon, 2008-07-28 at 13:41 -0600, Karl Larsen wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>           
>>>>>>    I looked and found the page you showed but it was not clear to me
>>>>>> how that will help with Thunderbird.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>             
>>>>> Did you also click the pretty icons? Here are the results from popcon
>>>>> for evolution vs. thunderbird, from the list "Statistics for the
>>>>> whole
>>>>> archive sorted by fields", ranked by <vote>.
>>>>>
>>>>> #<name> is the package name;
>>>>> #<inst> is the number of people who installed this package;
>>>>> #<vote> is the number of people who use this package regularly;
>>>>> #<old> is the number of people who installed, but don't use this
>>>>> package
>>>>> #        regularly;
>>>>> #<recent> is the number of people who upgraded this package recently;
>>>>>
>>>>> #rank name                            inst  vote   old recent
>>>>> 443   evolution                      509363 80793 404082 24432
>>>>> 587   thunderbird                    141871 45359 91515  4937
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>           
>>>>    Sorry, I do not know what your statistics prove. Of course for
>>>> Ubuntu 100 percent of the Ubuntu installed HAVE Evolution installed.
>>>>
>>>>         
>>    Here they are. Lots of things can be wrong but all results are
>> presented. The sample size of 100 is small but I am lazy :-)
>>
>>
>>                What E-mail Client do we use on Ubuntu?
>>
>>        Checked 100 of the last emails to this list and the results are
>> as follows:
>>
>> Thunderbird     36
>> Gmail           20
>> Evolution       12
>> Firefox         5
>> Mutt            3
>> Apple           2
>> Microsoft       2
>> All Others      30
>>
>>        The results show that Thunderbird is used 3 times more often
>> than Evolution and more times than All Others. I was surprised at all
>> the Gmail use.
>>
>>        Another result is as follows. All 100 users have Evolution on
>> their computer but only 12 are using it. One third of the users choose
>> to download Thunderbird and use that.
>>     
>
> Hey Karl
>
> I think the problem with your method is that is counts people on this
> list who post alot - rather than all ubuntu users.  There's lots of
> them that never post to this list.  There's also some people on this
> list - like yourself say - that post alot.  So, it skews the results
> that way.
>
> I know that I would show up in the stats for this list (if you sampled
> enough email) as Apple Mail, Gmail, IceDove and Evolution.  Depends on
> where I'm sitting when I start typing.
    I think you were the two Apple Mail. You were counted as that.

>   I think the larger sample size
> of the popularity info is more representative of Ubuntu as a whole.
>   
    I do not know what the popularity info is. How is it gathered and 
what is all the numbers? What does it have to do with probability?
> Those stats are there for exactly the reason you started out
> commenting on.  Popular stuff goes on the CD and not popular stuf
> doesn't.  Full points for the idea, it was right on.
>
>   
    Well my data with possible errors proves that in the 100 email 
sample there were as many as 12 Evolutions used. There were more Gmail 
and Thunderbird.

Karl

> Brian
>
>   


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