> On 02/07/2011 20:34, Timothy Pearson wrote:
>>> I'm just courious: is ther any known number how many people use
>>> trinity?
>>> Maybe
>>> the number of downloads of "kde-trinity"?
>>>
>>> Nik
>>>
>>
>> This is currently unknown but is expected to be upwards of 1000 users
>> based on download volume from one of the mirror sites.  An unofficial
>> goal
>> of 3.5.13 is to get better statistics/tracking into place so that we can
>> get a better estimate of this number.
>>
>> Tim
> I really think we can only have rough estimates about that kind of
> information.  Even the
> Debian project cannot count the number of installed distros:
>    1 iso download=1, 10, ..., N installations?
>    1 aptitude update/upgrade = 1, 10, ..., N upgrades (via apt-cacher)?
>
> In fact this is a really difficult question to ask.  Of course, with
> better tracking
> tools, the estimations will become more precise or cover particular
> topics, but still...
>
> Tools such as "The Linux Counter" (http://counter.li.org/) also exist but
> require at least
> a manual intervention (then a script can be used).  Debian also have a
> package popularity
> contest (http://popcon.debian.org/), etc. and all of these things are
> really fun indeed!
>

I agree 100%.

Tim