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Subject: Re: [kde-promo] Developer stats quickies
From: Leo Franchi <lfranchi () kde ! org>
Date: 2009-07-12 21:12:45
Message-ID: CD08A836-BC0B-4D28-A143-488A96F673BB () kde ! org
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On 12 Jul 2009, at 14:50, Jos Poortvliet wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 8:48 PM, Troy Unrau<troy.unrau@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > I don't have sufficient knowledge of git to comment on it in any way
> > (I've never used it, and I've yet to see a good explanation as to why
> > it will help KDE), so I'll leave that one alone. However, the rest
> > is
> > useful. I might try to whip something up.
>
> Basically, git will make the summer-in-trunk thing easier. Besides,
> it's simply another step in the maturation of our development process
> - knowledge of no knowledge, I'm pretty sure that's true.
>
It makes a lot of developers' lives much easier, letting people work
on what they want to work on when they want to work on it with as
little stress and overhead as possible.
at least, that's why i like git :)
leo
> > Cheers
> >
> > 2009/7/12 Jos Poortvliet <jospoortvliet@gmail.com>:
> > > On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 8:32 PM, Troy Unrau<troy.unrau@gmail.com>
> > > wrote:
> > > > The problem with writing such an involved article is that it's only
> > > > fresh in peoples' minds for a short time - so even though it
> > > > would be
> > > > a great reference article for others to use, short frequent
> > > > articles
> > > > keeps the sense of activity fresh. I like all of those suggested
> > > > topics, but we should cover them one at a time, imho.
> > > >
> > > > Of course I could be totally off the mark with the logic here, so
> > > > feel
> > > > free to chime in.
> > >
> > > No, you make an excellent point. This short kind of articles won't
> > > make it to slashdot but a continuous bombardment of them will make
> > > our
> > > community feel more confident and everyone reading the dot will
> > > slowly
> > > but surely begin to realize that we're doing great ;-)
> > >
> > > Maybe mention articles like
> > > http://dot.kde.org/2008/08/28/akademy-redux-release-team-members-propose-new-development-process
> > > And the move to git?!?
> > >
> > > something like:
> > > The growth of the KDE community can be felt widely, and as such work
> > > has been ongoing for a while to prepare our development process and
> > > our community for this. Recently, some number-gathering has been
> > > happening, and we would like to share the result with you.
> > >
> > > or whatever.
> > >
> > >
> > > > Cheers
> > > >
> > > > 2009/7/12 Jos Poortvliet <jospoortvliet@gmail.com>:
> > > > > On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 8:27 PM, Jos Poortvliet<jospoortvliet@gmail.com
> > > > > > wrote:
> > > > > > On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 8:01 PM, Lydia Pintscher<lydia@kde.org>
> > > > > > wrote:
> > > > > > > On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 19:56, Troy
> > > > > > > Unrau<troy.unrau@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > > > > > Would this be better as a blog entry, or as a short dot
> > > > > > > > article, I wonder...
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > Thoughts? I can push either one online. If I don't have any
> > > > > > > > feedback
> > > > > > > > in 48 hours, I'll just make an arbitrary decision on it.
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > Cheers
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > +1 for blog
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Actually I think it would be a nice idea to have an article about
> > > > > > growth and adoption of KDE. It's of course hard to come up with
> > > > > > numbers in many area's, but still...
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Besides these numbers/stats, we could mention:
> > > > > > millions of EEE-pc's and Acer Aspire one etc with KDE tech (we
> > > > > > might
> > > > > > have had 100% marketshare, but that was in a time there were some
> > > > > > 100.000 items shipped/year. Now we have 5-10% of a multi-million
> > > > > > market, so in absolute numbers it's a huge growth)
> > > > > > deployments in countries like Brazil, Russia
> > > > > > Adoption by Maemo, Nokia working on phones with Qt (will in
> > > > > > time lead
> > > > > > to KDE stuff on there)
> > > > > > let's not forget that our technology is almost everywhere
> > > > > > already in
> > > > > > the form of Phonon and WebKit.
> > > > > > the doubling/tripling (what was it again?) of monetary income
> > > > > > in KDE e.V.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > And I'm sure there is more. We could collect some numbers for a
> > > > > > while
> > > > > > and then create a story?!?
> > > > >
> > > > > I forgot to add - we managed to close almost 10.000 bugs and
> > > > > implement
> > > > > 2000 feature requests for the next KDE release! we had
> > > > > contributions
> > > > > by almost 700 people (that was more like 500 just over a year
> > > > > ago, if
> > > > > I recall correctly)
> > > > >
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Cheers
> > > > > > > Lydia
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > --
> > > > > > > Lydia Pintscher
> > > > > > > Amarok community manager
> > > > > > > kde.org - amarok.kde.org - kubuntu.org
> > > > > > > claimid.com/nightrose
> > > > > > >
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