Re: [dev-serveez] Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Serveez 0.1.5

[stefan]

On Thu, 5 Jun 2003, Richard Stallman wrote:

>     IMHO for releasing a "version 1" it is necessary to have a wider user
>     base.  Currently there are only few people "playing around" with Serveez.
>
> It sounds like you think there are many bugs, then.  But...
>
>     The software's concepts generally proved to be correct (as there some
>     who find it useful).  Also the code is getting more stable and loads of
>     bugs have been fixed in the last releases.
>
> that says you think there are not so many bugs.
>
> Do you have any measurement of the number of downloads?  Perhaps that
> would show you there are more users than you realized.
>
> Perhaps it would be good to send announcements about serveez to more
> places.  Perhaps it would be good to put a request into the README
> and the web page asking the users to contact you so that you have an
> idea how big the user community is.

The number of downloads I can only measure on freshmeat and sourceforge.
For the ftp.gnu.org server I don't have an idea...  I think
gnu.org, freshmeat.net and sourceforge.net are places enough to announce a
release, or what did you think abot when saying "good to send
announcements about serveez to more places"?

These are the download counters.  (I just grep'ed the access-log file)
Seems like there are not too much users (these statistics are the sum of
three (3) years).

Freshmeat.Net:
  serveez 0.1.0 - 146
  serveez 0.1.1 - 184
  serveez 0.1.2 - 178
  serveez 0.1.3 - 252
  serveez 0.1.4 - 171
  serveez 0.1.5 - 40

SourceForge.Net:
  serveez 0.1.0 - 37
  serveez 0.1.1 - 39
  serveez 0.1.2 - 32
  serveez 0.1.3 - 59
  serveez 0.1.4 - 109
  serveez 0.1.5 - 0


Personally I would call it version "1" if Serveez really handled some
important task correctly for some time.  I could imagine to use Serveez's
HTTP server for gnu.org's web pages, instead of using Apache.  What do you
think about it?

Thanks in advance,
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