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From: Kai-Martin Knaak <knaak AT iqo DOT uni-hannover DOT de>
Subject: Re: [geda-user] geda popularity (was: GTK3, Glade interface designer)
Date: Fri, 09 Oct 2015 19:29:26 +0200
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Sabin Iacob (iacobs AT m0n5t3r DOT info) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com] wrote:

> A good approximation might be Debian's and Ubuntu's popcon data:

IMHO, the most valuable column is "vote". It gives the number of 
participating users who used the application during the last 30 days.
It seems fair to call them active users. There are of course users
who use geda less often. But all boundaries are fuzzy anyway.
 

> Debian:
>
> pcb: https://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=pcb

votes for pcb-common: about 150
https://qa.debian.org/popcon-graph.php?packages=pcb-common&show_vote=on&want_legend=on&want_ticks=on&from_date=&to_date=&hlght_date=&date_fmt=%25Y-%25m&beenhere=1

> gaf: https://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=geda-gaf

votes for geda-gschem: about 220
https://qa.debian.org/popcon-graph.php?packages=geda-gschem&show_vote=on&from_date=&to_date=&hlght_date=&date_fmt=%25Y-%25m&beenhere=1


> Ubuntu: they don't seem to have a fancy web ui for searching, so here
(...)
> #rank name                            inst  vote   old recent no-files
> 9075  geda-gschem                    27751    58 27654    21    18
> 10453 pcb                            20273    27 12154     1  8091
> 10890 pcb-gtk                        18203    45 18137     5    16

Interestingly, geda seems significantly more popular between Debian users.
Even more so, if we consider the amount of participants. In Debian about
186 000 systems contribute to the statistics. While this already seems
impressive, Ubuntu boasts 2.7 Million participating installs.  

This suggests that active geda users are about 30 times more likely to
use Debian than the average linux user. 

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