Back in June I published some stats regarding plugin downloads form the Central Griffon Artifact Repository. What's interesting is that miglayout, swingx-builder and glazedlists appear to be locked in a fierce competition on whose top dog.
There were some other interesting stats regarding Operating System, Processor Architecture and preferred JDK by developers worldwide that downloaded plugins via the portal. A bit more than 6 months have passed since those stats were collected. Let's see what we have now
Operating System
As reported by System.getProperty("os.name")
Decided to group all Windows entries into a single bucket, showing that it has grown 200% overall, while OSX grew roughly 80%. Clearly OSX and Windows have eaten almost 20% of what Linux used to have.
Processor Architecture
As reported by System.getProperty("os.arch")
Interestengly non 64bit platforms got a smaller piece of the pie, while x86_64 grew about 70%.
JDK
Grouped by major/minor
Looks like JDK7 grew a bit more than 200%, which is good news as public updates for JDK6 are scheduled to cease by Feburary 2013.
Griffon Version
So far Griffon 0.9.5 appears to be the most popular version usd so far. But numbers can be deceiving. As explained back in Oct 23rd (remember the Amazon outage? It barely hit Griffon developers), plugin download stats are affected by the state of your local cache. That is, if you already have miglayout-1.0.0in your local cache then the next time you install this version it will be pulled from there and not from the central repository, thus the download will not be counted. Bottom line is we don't count plugin installations every time one of them is triggered by the build.
Some people have asked for Griffon to have the ability to better measure the size of its community and have a better idea of how widespread its usage is, which is why the next release (1.2.0) includes a "phone home" feature (GRIFFON-570) that is completely opt-in. It will never track you as an individual nor the data collected be used in harmful ways. With this data we should be able to figure out with better precision which Griffon features are more important to you, which plugins give you the most mileage, and more.
Keep on Groovying!
