Bryce Harrington wrote:
On Mon, Apr 17, 2006 at 05:18:14PM -0300, bulia byak wrote:
On 4/17/06, Bryce Harrington <bryce@...961...> wrote: Here'a another metric: recently, for the first time, the number of hits for "inkscape" on Google image search has fallen from 6500 to 5840. That number changes only once every several months, but on all previous changes it approximately doubled.
That's an interesting measure but I doubt it's due to issues with 0.43. More likely it's just an effect of the amount of time since the last release. Or maybe everyone's busy playing with Xara now. ;-)
I think we should not worry about the adoption rate slowing, this may have a natural explanation: maybe Inkscape has filled is niche and there is no room for such a sustained grow (the same as Firefox adoption slowing down after they got at 10%). If this is true, then for increasing the growth rate another niches have to identified and filled. Or maybe some people wait for certain features (blur, pdf export, you name it) before jumping ship.
That being said, i remember a very good blog post made by Bryce on his blog about why the number of users is not the most important metric for a FOSS project (sorry, i can't find a link to it).