The discussion about people avoiding .0 releases over in the "Index
corruption ..." thread made me wonder how the distribution really looks
like. How many people do install X.0, X.1, etc. for each major version
X?
Download statistics are of course quite noisy but I think they should at
least show the trends. Do you have any and would you mind publishing
them?
My guess is that the downloads will start low for .0 then increase for
some time (because most people who installed X.y will then upgrade to
X.y+1, at least if they are using apt or dnf). At some time after the
next major release it will start to decline again (because people will
now use the new major release for fresh installs and also start to
upgrade existing installations) but with a very long tail.
hjp
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