Re: [Nano-devel] guessing at the number of users of nano

[林博仁(Buo-ren, Lin)]

Hello,

(still struggling with the mailing list, hope this one is sent properly)

> Do any other distributions offer such indications of the number of 
users of a package?  Fedora, Gentoo, Arch, Ubuntu?

As for the distribution on the Snap Store[1], the exact metrics are only 
available to the publisher and its collaborators(I would love to give 
you access, unfortunately it requires an Ubuntu One account[2]).

Anyway, here's the latest(Dec. 12) statistics since the initial 
announcement(Dec. 4):

* 44 weekly active devices[4], including 35 tracking the stable 
channel(3.2) and 9 tracking beta and edge channel(currently 3.2-42-g55537dc)
  Note that the systems that uninstall the snap afterwards and the ones 
that not become online in a week period will be deducted from this number.
* People in 22 territories[5] has installed the snap, the top three:
    * United States(9)
    * Germany(5)
    * Canada(4)
* 24 of the snap users are using nano on Ubuntu Core[6] devices, perhaps 
nano isn't shipped by default...? :-/

That's all for now, I'll post an update about the current status of the 
nano snap in the next few days.

Cheers,
林博仁(Buo-ren, Lin) <address@hidden>

[1] https://snapcraft.io/nano
[2] https://login.ubuntu.com
[3] http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/nano-devel/2018-12/msg00003.html
[4] https://screenshots.firefox.com/ORUavggLiaue4KeQ/snapcraft.io
[5] https://screenshots.firefox.com/TQDOUpa29IhlB5OF/snapcraft.io
[6] https://www.ubuntu.com/core