All:
For some time, traffic statistics for the sites in the
ovirt.org domain (lists, resources,
gerrit, and linode01) have been collected and organized using awstats[1] at
stats.ovirt.org[2]. From the data provided for resources, I have been able to put together
what should be a fairly definitive set of statistics for software downloads within the
oVirt Project.
Methodology
The statistics that were analyzed were for five parts of the project:
* Engine
* Live
* Node
* Engine Reports
* Engine dwh
Downloads of the Engine RPM file, it was determined, would be indicative of actual oVirt
installs. The allinone RPMs were not analyzed at this time, since installing this RPM is a
choice made during the installation process itself. Tracking the Engine Reports and dwh
RPMs was done to determine the popularity of these two tools and to ensure their numbers
were comparable.
To count downloads, data was gathered each month that listed the total downloads of every
file, a number derived from the total hits each file had, minus any 206 hits, which
indicated incomplete downloads. Key files for Engine, Engine Reports, and Engine dwh were
identified and the data filtered to include counts for each one of the files, in whatever
version released.
Tracking of Live and Node RPMs was already set up within the awstats reporting, and was
taken directly from awstats in each month.
If there is any part of this methodology that is in error, feedback is very much
appreciated.
Presentation of Data
Data was aggregated using Pivot Tables in Google Docs, and the application of SUMIFS
functions in the same spreadsheet document. This document is still being formatted into a
more presentable form, but until then, I wanted to deliver some preliminary results to the
community for the first five months of the year.
It will be noted that in general, download numbers are on the rise, particularly around
the time oVirt 3.4 was released. There are significant gaps in downloads of Engine Reports
and Engine dwh. I am still investigating the cause of this lack of data.
Engine
Jan 5815
Feb 4251
Mar 1980
Apr 10509
May 12043
Engine Reports
Jan 0
Feb 1209
Mar 0
Apr 10282
May 9647
Engine dwh
Jan 0
Feb 603
Mar 0
Apr 9974
May 10311
Live
Jan 845
Feb 757
Mar 739
Apr 1981
May 1187
Node
Jan 95
Feb 757
Mar 739
Apr 1981
May 1187
Thanks for Alon Bar-Lev and Michael Scherer for their invaluable assistance with this data
gathering and reporting.
BKP
[1]
http://awstats.sourceforge.net/
[2]
http://stats.ovirt.org/
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Brian Proffitt
oVirt Community Manager
Project Atomic Community Lead
Open Source and Standards, Red Hat -
http://community.redhat.com
Phone: +1 574 383 9BKP
IRC: bkp @ OFTC