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Subject: Re: 12.7 million downloads for 2015
From: Jim Jagielski <jim@jaguNET.com>
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w00t!!!

Sounds like a great subject for a blog post!
> On Jan 7, 2016, at 5:21 PM, Guillaume Laforge <glaforge@gmail.com> =
wrote:
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> Hi again,
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> As the year ended, I collected the latest download figures from Maven =
Central and Bintray.
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> In 2015, Apache Groovy's been downloaded 12.7 million times!
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> With about 8 millions from Maven Central and 4.7 millions from =
Bintray.
> Historically, Central represented the biggest chunk, but =
interestingly, for the last quarter, the downloads are even between the =
two.
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> The total figure above doesn't account for the first quarter numbers =
from Codehaus, as Codehaus is no more and I didn't have access to the =
latest figures there.
> And with Apache, you can also download Groovy from dozens of mirrors =
worldwide, and I don't think we can have a consolidated access to those =
numbers either AFAIK.
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> For reference, from memory, we had 4.5 million downloads in 2014, 3 =
millions in 2013, and 1.7 million in 2012. So that's a big increase!
> Clearly, the move to the Apache Software Foundation seems to have =
sparked the interest of new Groovy developers.
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> Let's make 2016 another Groovy year for you all!
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> Guillaume
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> --=20
> Guillaume Laforge
> Apache Groovy committer & PMC chair
> Product Ninja & Advocate at Restlet
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> Blog: http://glaforge.appspot.com/
> Social: @glaforge / Google+