Re: GNOME: numbers of users, patches/revisions

[Sumana Harihareswara <sumanah panix com>]

On 03/24/2011 03:50 PM, John Stowers wrote:
> On Thu, 2011-03-24 at 15:18 -0400, Sumana Harihareswara wrote:
> > I'm working on the press release and I'm finding it hard to figure out:
> >
> > About how many users can I claim GNOME has?  (To simplify: the desktop,
> > not the platform.)
> IMO, if you cannot verify it then it is not true.
>
> I would leave numbers or statements like this out, it will only
> encourage flaming, fights, disagreement and bickering (like what happens
> whenever anyone posts 'my distro has XYZ users')
>
> John

John: How would you feel about an approximation along the lines of 
"hundreds of thousands of users" (or whatever a verifiably correct order 
of magnitude is)?

-Sumana