ethan mindlace fremen wrote:
Jimmie Houchin wrote:
I would have to say that both are accurate at the time they were given. However, neither will be a truly accurate measurement of the users of Zope and the Zope community.
They each measure different things. One measures the people who have "joined" Zope.org. """The extremely large Members folder (11139 of you!)""" The other measures subscribers to the mailing list. """There are 1617 members of zope@zope.org"""
There are a few people who have different identities on the Zope memberships. There will also be possible duplication on the mailing list due to different email addresses. There are also people who neither join Zope.org nor subscribe to the mailing list, but who have nevertheless downloaded and use Zope.
There also are people who have been on the mailing lists, learned and then subsequently left the lists, but still use Zope. There are also those who no longer do.
So, who knows what an accurate figure would be?
This is impossible! Zope is distributed with Red Hat and Debian, both of which are availiable via anonymous ftp. It looks like there are about
And SuSe, and I believe, Mandrake as well.
But anyway, there's no concrete way to count zope users: estimation is the best we'll ever get.
yup.