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Subject: Re: [DRAFT] Apache Flex September 2013 Report
From: Dave Fisher <dave2wave@comcast.net>
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On Sep 9, 2013, at 4:40 PM, Justin Mclean wrote:

> Hi,
>=20
>> Mailing list traffic is so high that folks have stopped reading =
emails.
> Traffic has actually decreasing for the last 7 months month on month =
so not sure that's correct [1]. I think it's just that some people =
prefer forums.
>=20
> Currently we've had about 10 people sign up to the dev list and 20 =
people sign up to the user list. I expected more but perhaps people =
don't know about it.
>=20
> Since the 4.10 release we've seen:
> - Significant web visits increase (especially for the week after the =
release up 100% or more)
> - More JIRA activity (more bugs raised than resolved however)
> - More activity on the users mailing list (flex-users markmail archive =
is broken so I can't see exact numbers)

http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/flex-users/ - looks to be up.
http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/flex-dev/ - looks like =
vacations in August and September picking up.

>=20
> Might also mention:
> - showcase idea and user submissions
> - CI improvements
> - 4.10 release candidate vote issue
> - 4.10 linux support
> - decreasing number of active committers [2]

Do you think the number of committers is a threat to the project?

Regards,
Dave


>=20
> Thanks,
> Justin
>=20
> 1.http://markmail.org/search/+list:org.apache.incubator.flex-dev
> 2. http://www.ohloh.net/p/ApacheFlex/contributors/summary