Inkscape 0.40 has turned out to be a good solid release. We're already seeing a surge in downloads, and the response to our notices and article on OS News has been quite positive. There have been a few complaints about the bleeding-edge-ness of the deps; this wasn't a surprise, we knew this would be a tough release for folks to get installed. We should keep this in mind and be a bit more conservative for the next release or two. With 0.40 out the door I see both a collective sigh of relief at being done and ready for a break, plus an energy to start working on new stuff for 0.41. For the next month or so we're going to keep things low key, enjoy the holidays, and work on whatever seems most intriguing. Below I've listed out the stats for the past two months for direct comparison. (I swear, some day I'll graph this data so we can visualize it easier...) Note the big jump in Freshmeat subscribers; these all came the day we announced the new release. Our mailing list memberships are also growing nicely. I think the article in early Nov brought in a sizeable number of people. I suspect that for us to continue building our lists we need to seek out new communities and have articles published in new publications. For instance, we seem to get good coverage in foreign trade magazines; it'd be good to get published in some U.S. computer magazines too. Statistics Oct 15 Nov 1 Nov 15 Dec 1 ========== ====== ===== ====== ===== Lifetime Rank on SourceForge: 687 684 636 636 (95.2%) (95.2%) (95.6%) (95.6%) Max Week's Rank on SourceForge: 124 62 14 16 (99.3%) (99%) (100%) (99.9%) Total SF Page Views 1,339,114 1,487,659 1,758,321 1,921,981 Total SF Downloads 63,869 69,078 80,152 89,345 Total Freshmeat URL Hits 11,465 11,849 12,162 13,351 Total Freshmeat Subscriptions 124 125 126 141 Lines of Code in src/: 303,783 306,602 307,747 309,285 Code lines 216,027 217,198 217,982 218,803 Comment line 52,421 53,262 53,491 53,798 Blank 41,872 42,699 42,829 43,249 Lines of Docs in doc/: 16,841 16,841 16,974 17,901 Lines of content in website: 7,840 8,121 8,382 8,732 Size of the Inkscape wiki: 22,459 18,977 19,735 21,379 Bugs open/total: 135/653 104/683 102/733 119/774 Features open/total: 263/406 279/426 291/448 307/467 Patches open/total: 7/126 7/130 7/137 5/143 CVS Commits (as per inkscape-cvs) 7,860 8,279 8,613 8,878 Inkscape-devel membership: 109 108 117 120 Inkscape-announce membership: 98 113 124 137 Inkscape-user membership: 138 144 157 162 Num Translations: 33 33 33 33 Ave Translation Ratio: 35.0% 38.5 38.4 42.2 * - Statistics unavailable Bryce