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* Typo fix.Eric S. Raymond1997-11-301-1/+1
* Typo fix.Eric S. Raymond1997-11-291-1/+1
* Daniel Calvo <dcalvo@task.com.br> reported that 4.3.2 builds and runsEric S. Raymond1997-11-291-3/+2
* Added Greg Stark's quitmode feature.Eric S. Raymond1997-11-283-12/+33
* Sent this to Gunther Leber.Eric S. Raymond1997-11-284-47/+64
* Corrected release date.Eric S. Raymond1997-11-221-1/+1
* Ready to ship, I think.Eric S. Raymond1997-11-226-56/+52
* Added a heads-up from Eric Allman.Eric S. Raymond1997-11-181-19/+27
* Added new R1.Eric S. Raymond1997-11-051-13/+21
* Version bump.Eric S. Raymond1997-11-051-1/+1
* Minor bug fixes im IMAP handling.Eric S. Raymond1997-11-053-3/+12
* We've got a fix for PMDF.Eric S. Raymond1997-11-051-17/+2
* Fix buglet in expansion of MDA %-escapes.Eric S. Raymond1997-11-051-0/+21
* Added warning about PMDF.Eric S. Raymond1997-11-051-2/+17
* Various minor bug fixes.Eric S. Raymond1997-10-275-10/+22
* Use EXAMINE where appropriate.Eric S. Raymond1997-10-272-1/+8
* Ready to ship.Eric S. Raymond1997-10-237-9/+9
* Narrow the error() interface.Eric S. Raymond1997-10-216-21/+46
* Added note about 3.9.5.Eric S. Raymond1997-10-201-2/+7
* Handle repolling multiple folders correctly.Eric S. Raymond1997-10-202-0/+2
* Fix interface option.Eric S. Raymond1997-10-202-2/+13
* Luca's bug fixes.Eric S. Raymond1997-10-172-0/+7
* Only re-poll when we've had actual dispatches.Eric S. Raymond1997-10-172-4/+15
* Added G9.Eric S. Raymond1997-10-161-2/+25
* Make current.Eric S. Raymond1997-10-161-1/+3
* *** empty log message ***Eric S. Raymond1997-10-161-0/+1
* Try to fix IMAP-K4 yet again.Eric S. Raymond1997-10-161-5/+9
* Wolfgang Wander's patches.Eric S. Raymond1997-10-156-5/+26
* Ready to ship.Eric S. Raymond1997-10-141-1/+1
* Fix IMAP-K4.Eric S. Raymond1997-10-142-6/+7
* RF conformance.Eric S. Raymond1997-10-142-5/+11
* Use UDP for DNS queries to avoid diald problems.Eric S. Raymond1997-10-141-2/+12
* Ready to ship.Eric S. Raymond1997-10-132-2/+2
* Added envelope-skip feature.Eric S. Raymond1997-10-136-3/+40
* Correct the list.Eric S. Raymond1997-10-131-1/+1
* Fix ETRN mode.Eric S. Raymond1997-10-135-9/+19
* Fix bug in processing of multiple -S args.Eric S. Raymond1997-10-132-1/+2
* RFC reference cleanup.Eric S. Raymond1997-10-122-4/+5
* Update.Eric S. Raymond1997-10-111-6/+12
* Add helpful comment.Eric S. Raymond1997-10-111-0/+1
* Minor fix.Eric S. Raymond1997-10-111-1/+1
* We can print real entries now.Eric S. Raymond1997-10-101-15/+24
* E\verything fits in 640x480 now.Eric S. Raymond1997-10-101-46/+57
* Added qvirtual and invisible.Eric S. Raymond1997-10-101-1/+24
* Initial revisionEric S. Raymond1997-10-101-0/+929
* -Wall cleanup.Eric S. Raymond1997-10-105-14/+9
* Minor tweaks.Eric S. Raymond1997-10-104-3/+13
* Fixed the route bug.Eric S. Raymond1997-10-091-2/+5
* Handle RFC822 routes.Eric S. Raymond1997-10-091-0/+3
* Ooops.Eric S. Raymond1997-10-091-1/+1
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pan class="na">class="c5">cyan scatter of diamonds</span> is the population of fetchmail-announce after the split.</p> <p>The <span class="c6">brown scatter of diamonds</span> tracks project size in lines of code (right vertical axis). The scale relationship between this scatter and the other three is arbitrary.</p> <p>This graph is quite revealing. Several trends stand out:</p> <ul> <li> <p>Over time, the project population displays rather consistent linear growth.</p> </li> <li> <p>The key event in the project's lifetime was release 4.3.0 in October 1997, when I declared the code to be out of development and in maintainance mode, and split the fetchmail list.</p> </li> <li> <p>The run-up to 4.3.0 saw the most intensive spate of releases in the project's history (the gap in that run happened when I took a two-week vacation). It was followed by a significant slowdown.</p> </li> <li> <p>After 4.3.0, the developer population remained fairly stable around an average of about 250 participants.</p> </li> <li> <p>Essentially all population growth after 4.3.0 happened on the announce list, among people using fetchmail but not active co-developers.</p> </li> <li> <p>The growth trend in code size looks sublinear, perhaps logarithmic.</p> </li> </ul> <p>The linear growth trend in population is particularly interesting; a priori we might expect geometric or logistic growth, given that the project spreads by word of mouth.</p> <p>It has been suggested that the linear growth rate is the result of a situation in which both number of projects and the population of eligible programmers are rising on trend curves of the same (probably exponential) rate.</p> <hr /> <table width="100%" cellpadding="0" summary="Canned page header"> <tr> <td width="30%" align="right">$Date$</td> </tr> </table> <br clear="left" /> <address>Eric S. Raymond <a href="mailto:esr@thyrsus.com">&lt;esr@thyrsus.com&gt;</a></address> </body> </html>