I was looking just now at our download statistics at SF, and noticed
something interesting: According to their “activity” ranking, we’re ranked
311 out of more than 100k projects. Now, I suspect that a good deal of this
is due to the automated bug reporting, but it’s worth noting that we’re
ranked ahead of such widely used projects as JUnit and libpng. I don’t know
that many people ever look at these rankings, but it might gain us some
visibility eventually.
We’re also 25th (!) during the last 7 days in total items opened/closed,
which I think is more a reflection of how much SF’s bug tracker sucks than
anything, since we’re tremendously higher in the ranking than what I’d
suspect given the volume of use we have. (For contrast, the top project
had 3623 items opened/closed in the past week—which, incidentally, I
think would destroy our sanity—so already at 25 of 100k there’s been a
drop to 1.7% of the maximum. I.e., the distribution is almost all tail.)