Hi,
As Christoffer suggested, I've collected data from Sourceforge, and have come up with a spreadsheet (ods) showing all the downloads of major Inkscape versions for source / win / mac builds since january 2008.
the file is here : https://inkscape.org/fr/gallery/item/2528/
To sum up, the results are :
1) the Windows builds are hugely the most downloaded, so if they can be hosted on GitHub, most of the work is done. (+ an optional bittorent for the more advanced users).
2) the maximum downloads per month were in january 2011, for the win version of 0.48, just a bit shy of 1M/month, which represents 33,1 TB that month.
3) I was surprised to find out that the numbers of mac downloads for 0.48.5 was about 1/4 of the number of win downloads, so it's getting more and more significative.
Regards, Edouard
Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2014 15:24:41 +0000 From: john.cliff@...400... To: christoffer.holmstedt@...400... CC: inkscape-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Inkscape-devel] Downloads Exception
How about we put a project on codeplex to host the downloads? I really like the idea of microsoft paying for our downloads bandwidth. On Sat, Nov 29, 2014 at 12:22 PM, Christoffer Holmstedt <christoffer.holmstedt@...400...> wrote: I just asked in Tilaa's freenode channel (tilaa.com) if they do any
sponsoring but they don't, but at the same time I got a response from
another Tilaa user that DigitalOcean sponsors an inoffical mirror och
GNU Octave at [1]. I haven't followed up on this suggestion so if
anyone else wants to ask DigitalOcean feel free to do so.
On the other hand Tilaa don't have any set limitation on bandwidth
usage but a clause in the terms of usage that they can limit it if its
way too big so if paying for a VPS is enough for them to allow it to
act as Inkscape mirror. It might be worth going forward with, but some
more specific numbers on traffic would be needed when initiating a
conversation with Tilaa.
--
Christoffer Holmstedt
2014-11-29 11:32 GMT+01:00 Brynn <brynn@...3133...>:
Just a quick note from someone from a "less tech-savvy groups".... as well
as someone who would potentially be helping other less tech-savvy people in
forums. What's a torrent?
Of course I'll be looking it up here shortly. And I'll be glad to help
other people, once I understand it myself.
Maybe it could be one option, among the usual straight-forward download
options.?
All best :-)
From: Josh Andler
Sent: Friday, November 28, 2014 3:02 PM
To: Martin Owens
Cc: Inkscape Devel List
Subject: Re: [Inkscape-devel] Downloads Exception
On Nov 28, 2014 12:39 PM, "Martin Owens" <doctormo@...400...> wrote:
I think we have room for torrents as a favoured method, it doesn't have
to make things vastly more complex. That's just going to be
presentation. I like the idea of our mirrors being in the torrent
though, that's very cool.
Scrapbookers and grade school children... we have a number of users in these
groups (among other less tech-savvy groups). Unless you know of a way to
torrent without requiring a special application for it, it's just a
potential source of confusion for these people.
If I go to download something on someone else's computer for them or give
them a link it's going to be a direct download. Even for myself I only opt
for torrent downloads for large files or in special cases. I don't think I'm
alone in that.
I'm not saying I'm against torrents as an option. It's just less straight
forward than it should be for the average user and I'm not sure how
prominent of an option it should be.
Cheers,
Josh
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