tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-427954471473436275.post7076815705177653437..comments2023-05-06T03:20:37.975-07:00Comments on Plone Metrics: Developer Community GrowthSchlepphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03783546987543453896noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-427954471473436275.post-19277342364242465202008-11-25T03:10:00.000-08:002008-11-25T03:10:00.000-08:00I agree, in terms of trends, plone.net sites is in...I agree, in terms of trends, plone.net sites is interesting. Another great stat I just found was this on Ohloh: http://tinyurl.com/5w9pyj that the rate of PHP and Python commits is roughly on par. I was expecting PHP to be an order of magnitude more.<BR/><BR/>-MattMatt Hamiltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10016352698519956990noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-427954471473436275.post-67342708030102063872008-11-25T03:07:00.000-08:002008-11-25T03:07:00.000-08:00I quite agree that Plone.net by its very nature om...I quite agree that Plone.net by its very nature omits a large portion of the Plone installation and use base. At Sandia Nat'l Labs we have built 53 intranet portals and only 2 public ones in the last four years. Even Lakomy's data mining of English Plone sites suffers from the inability to count intranets. <BR/><BR/>That said, I believe as Martin states, the trends are worth tracking. Were the number of Plone.net sites falling below the regression line, the community would have cause to wonder about their effectiveness. <BR/><BR/>Of course, correlation does not imply causation. Plenty of external factors enter in to this. I'm frankly surprised that the current economic situation has not turned up in some metric of Plone use. But it may well be an up-turn due to the huge cost savings of open source and CMS in general.Schlepphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03783546987543453896noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-427954471473436275.post-84460860606530077852008-11-24T03:59:00.000-08:002008-11-24T03:59:00.000-08:00Thank you for going this! I find this hugely inter...Thank you for going this! I find this hugely interesting, and it's be great to collate more metrics like this on a regular basis. <BR/><BR/>On the plone.net issue, while I agree that the total number is not very interesting. Plone.net numbers are not that interesting as absolutes, but may be useful in terms of trends. <BR/><BR/>MartinMartin Aspelihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11251335463579376973noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-427954471473436275.post-21217820990816764152008-11-23T21:31:00.000-08:002008-11-23T21:31:00.000-08:00All numbers to live Plone sites are basically poin...All numbers to live Plone sites are basically pointless and wrong by design. As Jon pointed out, the sites listed on plone.net are only a very small fraction of the Plone site in the real world. In addition there is huge number of Plone intranet/extranet installations that will never show up. So don't try to read tea-leaves from those numbers.ajunghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13983959953928892138noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-427954471473436275.post-1338004337100886912008-11-23T17:44:00.000-08:002008-11-23T17:44:00.000-08:00Great stuff, Karl! One thing to keep in mind is t...Great stuff, Karl! One thing to keep in mind is that Plone.net is a very self-selected listing of sites... rather than an attempt to list every Plone site that exists. <BR/><BR/>For example, ONE/Northwest has built over 150 Plone sites, but we've only listed about 10 at Plone.net. More would be noise there.<BR/><BR/>Unlike some other CMSes, Plone doesn't "phone home" in any way, so it is impossible to accurately survey the number of Plone installs in the world.Jon Stahlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01965431267437542533noreply@blogger.com