Re: Derby download stats

["Jean T. Anderson" <jt...@bristowhill.com>]

An update for a very old thread (I think there might have been a more
recent question but I couldn't find it) ....

On Thu, 04 May 2006, Jean T. Anderson wrote:
> A couple people have contacted me about the download stats for Derby at:
> 
> http://people.apache.org/~vgritsenko/stats/projects/derby.html
> 
> The downloads reported aren't Derby product downloads. They are a count
> of the zip/tar/tgz/jar/etc. type files downloaded; for example, the
> files under http://db.apache.org/derby/binaries/ .

Vadim says :

> Downloads from www.apache.org/dist/db/derby/ are also counted. So if your files are in correct mirrored location, they will be reflected in the count. 

Of course, though, these are *page* hit stats, useful for estimating
downloads. The mirrors don't report actual download stats.

 -jean


> By the way, another fun fountain of stats is at
> people.apache.org/~henkp/analog
> 
> Apache doesn't get download stats back from the mirrors so, to my
> knowlege, we don't have a way of knowing exactly how many copies of
> Derby have actually been downloaded.
> 
>  -jean
>