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Subject: Re: [geda-user] geda popularity (was: GTK3, Glade interface designer)
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On Fri, Oct 9, 2015 at 5:29 PM, Kai-Martin Knaak
<knaak AT iqo DOT uni-hannover DOT de> wrote:
> 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

What is interesting to me is how this compares to kicad. I expected a
lot more kicad users than I saw.

>> 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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