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I wish the dots were scaled by some metric indicating popularity. Such a metric is hard to come up with. Maybe total number of commits. Way awesome though.
You already see some kind of popularity – just count the number of forks.
I think number of forks is not a very precise metric.
I wish the dots were scaled by some metric indicating popularity. Such a metric is hard to come up with. Maybe total number of commits. Way awesome though.
I wish the dots were scaled by some metric indicating popularity. Such a metric is hard to come up with. Maybe total number of commits. Way awesome though.
You already see some kind of popularity – just count the number of forks.
I wish the dots were scaled by some metric indicating popularity. Such a metric is hard to come up with. Maybe total number of commits. Way awesome though.
The page hit count on http://distrowatch.com/ is sometimes used as a popularity proxy. What do you reckon?
Instead use data from highly popular sites like wikipedia: http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikimedia/squids/SquidReportOpera...
I maintain a specific timeline for Debian if anyone is interested: http://timeline.debian.net
Maybe you could add another Frame with Versions of Popular Packages? I'm Thinking KDE, Gnome, GCC, mayor scripting Languages Browsers and Editors?
Ps. I am proud that I was a paid co-developer of the very first distribution listed ;).
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You already see some kind of popularity – just count the number of forks.
Forks are also an indicator that people weren't happy with the origin.
The chart clearly shows that there is a lot of proliferation, which is confusing to a lot of new users. Imagine what would be possible if all these fine developers would focus on two or three distributions. Ps. I am proud that I was a paid co-developer of the very first distribution listed ;).
