[Vtigercrm-developers] sourcefoge and statistic

[Błażej Pabiszczak]

SourceForge statistics don't really mean anything. It happened several
times that the number of downloads for our project jumped to 1.000 per
week, when in reality the traffic directed to GitHub and the website
didn't change, which means that all the downloads were automatic. It
also means that everyone can artificially bump up their statistics, but
it won't be reflected in the number of community members, or the general
value; these are just meaningless numbers. At most they mean that one
solution is more popular than some other solution. In a different
project - http://www.softaculous.com/apps/erp/YetiForce we are number
one. 

A ton of elements influence the popularity, but I think the biggest
mistake was creating http://code.vtiger.com/explore, instead of opening
a project at GitHub. This way you ended up with 34 stars, while others
[Suite 543, Yeti 360, ORO 552, ODOO 6010] score way higher, which means
that a bigger community develops a bigger system. SourceForge looks
decent during a presentation for a client... but it really is a
deceitful statistic.

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W dniu 2017-02-16 11:48, Simone Travaglini napisał(a):

> ok guys, the number of download depend on awarness of a product. Let me say to you that Vtiger it's the most famous opensource CRM software at this moment. That's why people download it. Yeti Force maybe have a more active community, I can suppose, but it's unknown to most of people.  
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> 2017-02-16 10:46 GMT+01:00 Ludwig von Schneider <ludwig.von.schneider at gmail.com>:
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> Developers list is very quiet. Forum also not shinning. It means that VTIGER has no bugs and is brilliant, or indeed there is some guy who clicking a lot to keep it popular in sourceforge . Yetiforce fork has 207 downloads, but their github and developers list are very very busy.
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> On Thu, Feb 16, 2017 at 3:36 PM, Tony Sandman <tonysandman999 at gmail.com> wrote: 
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> sourceforge shows 3900 downloads of vtiger in this week only. Are those guys using some bot for clickin? 
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