Marcus Comstedt (ACROSS) (Hail Ilpalazzo!) @ Pike (-) developers forum wrote:
Well, the user base of the tools doesn't necessarily reflect the distribution of repository types among projects. There only has to be
Very true. The statistic shown is just that, a statistic, and since I don't have any others, that's all I can show. I know it's just as bad as most other statistics; the other information I have is even more vague than this silly graph.
that _most_ projects start with git or move to git. If we were to draw any conclusion from this graph it would be that _most_ projects are shutting down their repositories completely, since the number of users who have any VCS at all has decreased from >=45% to <=20% (the exact figure depends on the overlap caused by people haveing more than one installed), meaning that the number of VCS installations (and by your logic the number of open-source projects) has been cut in half. So _most_ the projects (>50%) must have been discontinued?
Well, like I said, don't overweight this graph... But since you are starting to pick it apart, we might as well do it properly... What it probably means, is that the number of people installing Debian are increasingly non-developers. I.e. the growth rate of Debian installs is higher than the growth rate of the number of developers amongst them. This would be expected, not everyone has a need to use VCS systems.