Some Statistics on Community Participation - August 2006

Thanks to Matt for encouraging us to get better statistics.

General Comments:

• This needs to be automated and made consistent
  • Java.Sun.Com and Sun.Com Forums were manual estimates
  • Java.Net forum counts were counted over last 30 days
  • Mailing Lists @ Java.Net were counted through calendar month. In parenthesis, June, July, Aug
• The multiplicity of projects makes it hard to see aggregated trends
• Some mailing lists and forums are very active, some are not
• Some communities use forums, some use mailing lists
• Should try to separate Users from Developers but some lists (e.g. persistence) cover both
• We need to consolidate
• Hopefully the new CollabNet mailing-list/forum integration will help

Mailing lists

Also see raw data and awk script.

GlassFish core - Dev: (184, 174, 367), Users: (204, 481, 38), Admin: (8, 17, 74), Quality: (11, 8, 4), EJB: (36, 10, 71), Persistence: (80, 47, 387), Wiki: (0, 0, 94). Total: (523, 737, 1035)
JAX-WS: Dev: (8, 55, 93), Users: (46, 59, 125)
JAX-RPC: Dev: (0, 0, 1), Users: (2, 22, 35)
WSIT: Dev: (2, 84, 138), Users: (3, 35, 16)
JAXB: Dev: (32, 1, 10), Users: (146, 129, 124)
JSF: Dev: (116, 55, 52), Users: (13, 6, 1)
JWSDP: Dev: (0, 0, 0), Users: (39, 33, 18)
FI: Dev: (6, 0, 15), Users: (1, 0, 0)
Aggregated (mailing lists): All: (937, 1216, 1663), Dev: (348, 369, 676), Others: (589, 847, 987)

Java.Net and Java.Sun.Com Forums

GF@JN - 486/30d
JAXB & JAX-WS@JN - 369/30d
WSIT@JN - 2/30d
Binary@JN - 10/30d
jMaki@JN - 17/30d
GF plugins@JN - 20/30d
JSF Forum@JSC - 30/day
Aggregated Forums - 904/30d + 30/day

Related Projects

Java.Sun.Com Technology Forums

Java EE SDK@JSC - 5/day
EJB@JSC - 7/day
JSP@JSC - 38/day
Servlets@JSC - 28/day
JavaBlueprints@JSC - <1/day
WS@JSC - 9/day
JBI@JSC - <1/day
XML@JSC - ~11/day
JMS@JSC - 3/day

Sun.Com Product Forums

SJS AS(all) - <5/day
SJS AS - 3/day
SJS AS installation - <1/day
Others all <1/day: System Adminstration, Migration, Performance and Tuning, Security, SE & EE, and PE

Reference Points

AppFuse: Dev: 58, Users: 600.
We need additional reference points.

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