Bug 50577 - Please could we have a download counter to see the rise of LibreOffice
Summary: Please could we have a download counter to see the rise of LibreOffice
Status: RESOLVED MOVED
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: WWW (show other bugs)
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Hardware: Other All
: low enhancement
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Reported: 2012-06-01 03:59 UTC by goldfish
Modified: 2015-10-25 13:04 UTC (History)
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Description goldfish 2012-06-01 03:59:08 UTC
This is a feature request.

Please could we have a download counter to see the rise of LibreOffice. Something like FireFox
Comment 1 Urmas 2012-06-23 07:31:34 UTC
Download is a misleadign statistics, as many people will uninstall this crap in a week or so.

Statistics for (semi)automatic updates are more interesting.
Comment 2 beimaginativeegroup 2012-08-19 16:09:55 UTC
Urmas, if you think LibreOffice is crap don't use it. About this feature, I'll now set it as NEEDINFO and I'll reply in a few days.
Comment 3 goldfish 2012-08-19 19:05:55 UTC
Thanks Jean.

Regards, 
Paul
(In reply to comment #2)
> Urmas, if you think LibreOffice is crap don't use it. About this feature, I'll
> now set it as NEEDINFO and I'll reply in a few days.
Comment 4 beimaginativeegroup 2012-09-02 09:29:37 UTC
First of all, sorry for the delay in replying I've been overwhelmed with work. I'm also posting a topic on the WWW mailing list so that we can discuss this. 

Actually, I agree with this idea. There are different ways how this can be implemented. One of these is that we add a download counter to the current download page. However, I have another idea that is that we add a new thing to our download page. 

If you try to download Firefox (as of August 2012), when you click the "Download" button you get redirected to a Thanks page which also includes a newsletter form. In this page, the download begins. I think this is a good idea for LibreOffice too. There we would add the download counter and also a "Donate" section. If I get good feedback from the mailing list, I'll create a sample page to get more valuable feedback. For now, I'll assign this to me. I'll reply in a week with more details on the feedback I receive.
Comment 5 goldfish 2012-09-02 18:28:23 UTC
Thanks Jean,

Here is how OpenOffice is doing it: http://www.openoffice.org/stats/

Plus we must state that LibreOffice is distributed with leading Linux Distros like Ubuntu (20 million users) & since it comes bundled with these OS & people don't download it (even though they use it), so the number will be significantly higher.





(In reply to comment #4)
> First of all, sorry for the delay in replying I've been overwhelmed with work.
> I'm also posting a topic on the WWW mailing list so that we can discuss this. 
> 
> Actually, I agree with this idea. There are different ways how this can be
> implemented. One of these is that we add a download counter to the current
> download page. However, I have another idea that is that we add a new thing to
> our download page. 
> 
> If you try to download Firefox (as of August 2012), when you click the
> "Download" button you get redirected to a Thanks page which also includes a
> newsletter form. In this page, the download begins. I think this is a good idea
> for LibreOffice too. There we would add the download counter and also a
> "Donate" section. If I get good feedback from the mailing list, I'll create a
> sample page to get more valuable feedback. For now, I'll assign this to me.
> I'll reply in a week with more details on the feedback I receive.
Comment 6 beimaginativeegroup 2014-06-18 17:27:31 UTC
This is being discussed on Redmine.
Comment 7 Dennis Roczek 2015-10-25 13:04:04 UTC
ticket moved to redmine https://redmine.documentfoundation.org/issues/1552