Re: GNOME: numbers of users, patches/revisions

[John Stowers <john stowers lists gmail com>]

On Thu, 2011-03-24 at 16:13 -0400, Sumana Harihareswara wrote:
> 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)?

Better. But in principle it still makes me uneasy.

John

> 
> -Sumana