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On Fri, 9 Oct 2015, Sabin Iacob (iacobs AT m0n5t3r DOT info) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com] wrote:

> On 10/08/2015 05:41 AM, Peter Stuge (peter AT stuge DOT se) [via
> geda-user AT delorie DOT com] wrote:
>> Kai-Martin Knaak wrote:
>>> what if the full user base is not that much larger than the
>>> subscriber list of the mailing list? Partly serious. Are there
>>> any hints to realistic estimates?
>> There's no way to know. There are lots of circumstantial metrics like
>> number of downloads, but then there are mirrors and so on. Nothing
>> good.
>>
>
> A good approximation might be Debian's and Ubuntu's popcon data:
>
> Debian:
>
> pcb: https://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=pcb
> gaf: https://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=geda-gaf
>
> Ubuntu: they don't seem to have a fancy web ui for searching, so here
> are some excerpts from
>
> curl -s http://popcon.ubuntu.com/by_inst | grep '^#\|\bgeda\b\|\bpcb\b'
>
>
> #Format
> #
> #<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;
> #<no-files> is the number of people whose entry didn't contain enough
> #        information (atime and ctime were 0).
> #rank name                            inst  vote   old recent no-files
> (maintainer)
> 9075  geda-gschem                    27751    58 27654    21    18
> (Debian Electronics Team)
> 10453 pcb                            20273    27 12154     1  8091
> (Debian Electronics Team)
> 10890 pcb-gtk                        18203    45 18137     5    16
> (Debian Electronics Team)
>

Nice, thank you for sharing this! Although I started using debian more 
than 15 years ago, I didn't know about popcon.

Regards,

Igor2