How is it our activity level on RubyForge continues to fall? What exactly makes up ''activity''? Does anyone know? I would have thought with all the commits and the release that our activity figures would be way up there. Roy
Roy Sutton wrote:> How is it our activity level on RubyForge continues to fall? What > exactly makes up ''activity''? Does anyone know? I would have thought > with all the commits and the release that our activity figures would be > way up there.If you''re talking about the "91.75%" or whatever it is, according to Tom Copeland: --- Well, the stats are somewhat understood - they''re based on totting up all the bugs/downloads/pageviews/CVS checkins/forum posts for a project and then munging them. But if I was pressed to explain exactly why a project had a 0% activity percentile on a particular day, I would wander off for a cup of coffee. --- We had a couple really busy weeks, which pushed our numbers up. Our "moderate" activity recently has been less impressive. But the other thing is that it''s on a curve. So no matter how active we are, other projects might be even more active, pushing our percentage down. I''m more frustrated that it is impossible (?) to find out how many people downloaded wxruby2 last week, whether from the Files section or via gem. The "all time" number is available, but not week-by-week. Kevin
Kevin Smith wrote:> I''m more frustrated that it is impossible (?) to find out how many > people downloaded wxruby2 last week, whether from the Files section or > via gem. The "all time" number is available, but not week-by-week. > >http://rubyforge.org/project/stats/index.php?group_id=35&area=downloads&SPAN=1&start=1159660800&end=1162339200&submit=Refresh That''s Daily. Change the date ranges and period to Weekly if you want that. Not enough weeks in October to really help that. Roy
Kevin Smith wrote:> --- > Well, the stats are somewhat understood - they''re based on totting up > all the bugs/downloads/pageviews/CVS checkins/forum posts for a project > and then munging them. But if I was pressed to explain exactly why a > project had a 0% activity percentile on a particular day, I would wander > off for a cup of coffee. > --- > >Also note we don''t have a forum. Discussion lists don''t count so my guess is that some projects get a boost by having a forum. Roy
Roy Sutton wrote:> Kevin Smith wrote: >> I''m more frustrated that it is impossible (?) to find out how many >> people downloaded wxruby2 last week, whether from the Files section or >> via gem. The "all time" number is available, but not week-by-week. >> >> > http://rubyforge.org/project/stats/index.php?group_id=35&area=downloads&SPAN=1&start=1159660800&end=1162339200&submit=Refresh > > That''s Daily. Change the date ranges and period to Weekly if you want > that. Not enough weeks in October to really help that.Does that include installs directly from gem, too? Kevin
Roy Sutton wrote:> Also note we don''t have a forum. Discussion lists don''t count so my > guess is that some projects get a boost by having a forum.[The "boost" Roy refers to is in the rubyforge "activity" statistics] Interesting. Personally I dislike forums because the UI tends to be pretty crappy. But as long as we can get emails when someone posts, I would be ok with having one for wxruby. Forums are nice if they allow users to post questions who don''t want to subscribe to a mailing list for some reason. Thoughts? Kevin
> Forums are nice if they allow > users to post questions who don''t want to subscribe to a mailing list > for some reason.The forum is more convenient for casual users, content that they do not want is not forced upon them, well not as much. I also think that an email notification would be nice. I do not plan on hanging around the forum waiting for questions. Sean
Kevin Smith wrote:> Roy Sutton wrote: > >> Kevin Smith wrote: >> >>> I''m more frustrated that it is impossible (?) to find out how many >>> people downloaded wxruby2 last week, whether from the Files section or >>> via gem. The "all time" number is available, but not week-by-week. >>> >>> >>> >> http://rubyforge.org/project/stats/index.php?group_id=35&area=downloads&SPAN=1&start=1159660800&end=1162339200&submit=Refresh >> >> That''s Daily. Change the date ranges and period to Weekly if you want >> that. Not enough weeks in October to really help that. >> > > Does that include installs directly from gem, too?I believe so. Not sure.
Kevin Smith wrote:> Roy Sutton wrote: > >> Also note we don''t have a forum. Discussion lists don''t count so my >> guess is that some projects get a boost by having a forum. >> > > [The "boost" Roy refers to is in the rubyforge "activity" statistics] > > Interesting. Personally I dislike forums because the UI tends to be > pretty crappy. But as long as we can get emails when someone posts, I > would be ok with having one for wxruby. Forums are nice if they allow > users to post questions who don''t want to subscribe to a mailing list > for some reason.I''m indifferent. Forums do allow for casual visitors to post problem reports. If no one uses it (or checks it) it may be worse than useless. Roy
> I''m indifferent. Forums do allow for casual visitors to post problem > reports. If no one uses it (or checks it) it may be worse than useless. >I''m with Roy on this one. I wouldn''t be interested in using a forum. wxruby-users is pretty low traffic, and people can post support requests and trackers already without subscribing if they want. Rubyforum is mirrored to c.l.r., which I usually follow casually and pick up any wxruby questions. So I''m -0 alex