[osol-mktg] OpenSolaris Download Statistics ?

[Claire Giordano]

To be clear - I do not want to publish download numbers at all, unless the 
numbers are complete.

Unfortunately, if we publish a subset of the numbers and state they are a 
subset, most people will not remember the caveat and yet will remember the 
numbers, or their "small|medium|large" perception of the numbers.  It won't be 
accurate and it could create a misperception about the momentum and interest.  I 
don't see what's in it for us.

Of course, if we could track BT and the mirrors, that would be great.

Claire

Karyn Ritter wrote:

> Claire Giordano wrote:
> 
>>
>> I don't want to distribute download numbers that are potentially very 
>> misleading.  I'd rather not share download #s all if they're not 
>> complete and if we don't know if they represent 10% or 90% of the 
>> actual number of downloads.
>>
>> Derek - do you agree with Simon's assessment below?  Since you were 
>> proposing to share download numbers (and had provided them last week 
>> to Laura), I'm wondering if you know of some magical way to track 
>> downloads from mirrors and BT?  Do you?
>>
> Just my $.02... I agree that we should only publish the numbers we can 
> track and state that they are a subset. Should we also provide a pointer 
> to the download numbers the mirrors publish?
> 
>> p.s.  Just saw email from Tom Gryder complimenting on a great report 
>> about OpenSolaris download statistics.  Who provided that, and when?  
>> I just searched my mail for downloads in the topic and glanced thru 
>> emails from Derek and Karyn and didn't find it.  I'm sure it's there, 
>> but would be much obliged if you could forward a copy?  And, we need 
>> to figure out who in engineering Patrick should confer with on stats - 
>> don't want our teams to be sending out conflicting info.
>>
> We directed him to get his download statistics from SDLC, and I'm sure 
> that is what he did.
> 
> - Karyn