[Cdd-commits] r1171 - projects/med/trunk/papers/09_osehc_porto

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Author: tille
Date: Thu Oct 30 17:53:44 2008
New Revision: 1171

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   projects/med/trunk/papers/09_osehc_porto/paper-text.tex
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Modified: projects/med/trunk/papers/09_osehc_porto/paper-text.tex
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--- projects/med/trunk/papers/09_osehc_porto/paper-text.tex	(original)
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 \subsubsection{Continuous growth}
 
+Several Free Software projects which try to deal with small user group
+software started with a lot of enthusiasm but at some point in time
+developers had other interests or just were unable to maintain the
+project because of lack of man power.  The strategy of \DebianMed is
+to stay strictly inside Debian -- so even if manpower is a problem the
+whole infrastructure around will stay solid and does not drain extra
+resources.  So nobody of the \DebianMed team has to care about writing
+installers, running an online repository and mirrors work on a bug
+tracking system etc.  All this infrastructure is just there.
+
 \begin{figure*}
 \centering
 \myinsertgraphic{dmstats.pdf}{120mm}{80mm}
 \caption{Number of dependencies of selected metapackages}\label{figure:dmstats}
 \end{figure*}
 
+The success of this strategy can be proven by a continuous growth for
+instance if the number of packages inside Debian which is interesting
+for health care.  Taking the number of dependencies of some
+metapackages into account (see figure \ref{figure:dmstats}) at the
+beginning of the project in 2002 a quite low number of packages useful
+for medical care was available.  A nearly linear growth with a
+gradient that perfectly reflects the availability of programs in this
+field can be observed.
+
 \begin{figure*}
 \centering
 \myinsertgraphic{authorstat.pdf}{120mm}{80mm}
 \caption{Activity of most active authors on the \DebianMed mailing list}\label{figure:authorstats}
 \end{figure*}
 
+This growth of the output of a project is an important part but
+we also try to measure the commitment of the people involved in the
+project.  It has to be ensured that fresh blood is flooding into the
+project to make sure it can cope with the normal loss of supporters
+which always happens in Free Software projects (people find new jobs
+with different orientation or less spare time for private reasons
+etc.)  A raw measure for the activity of members might be their mails
+to the project mailing list.  Figure \ref{figure:authorstats}) shows 
+the number of mails of the ten most active posters of the \DebianMed
+mailing list.  This graph shows perfectly that the number of active
+supporters is growing solidly.  In the last two years three people can
+be considered as very active and there is no dramatic loss of people
+in the project.  The general activity on the mailing list is
+constantly growing.
+
 
 \section{Discussion}