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2009-09-14 , 05:57
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Originally Posted by attila77 View Post
What if we use these spikes as an additional metrics in some form ? After all, the volume of the spike is the approximate numbers who still have it installed.
There was a scientific paper of this phenomenon in the latest Open Source Systems conference (OSS 2009). Here is the reference:

Wiggins, A., Howison, J. & Crowston, K. 2009. Heartbeat: Measuring Active user Base and Potentieal User Interest in FLOSS Projects. In Boldyreff, C., Crowston, K., Lundell, B. & Wasserman, A.I. (eds.): Open Source Ecosystems: Diverse Communities Interacting, Proceedings of 5th IFIP WG 2.13 International Conference on Open SOurce Systems, OSS 2009, Skövde, Sweden, June 2009.
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