[Twisted-Python] overview: new review queue venue

[Glyph]

> On May 22, 2016, at 12:09 AM, Hynek Schlawack <hs at ox.cx> wrote:
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>>>> A lot of projects do follow this workflow, and maybe it will be fine for us.  The real question is; is FreeBSD support really worth it for the cost to contributors, since that's the only platform we currently support but can't test?
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>>> I'm guessing that we have more FreeBSD users than Windows users ;)
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>> I realize it can feel like that sometimes, but Google Analytics suggests the large majority of our visitors (45%) are on Windows.  By contrast, 0.05% are on FreeBSD.  Granted, that's a very high percentage of FreeBSD clients for the Internet at large, but nevertheless, I think your perspective may be slightly statistically skewed.
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> I don’t think there’s a meaningful correlation between what people use to browse docs vs. what people run Twisted on.
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> E.g. Netflix & WhatsApp run on FreeBSD; do you think their tech staff has FreeBSD on their desktops? :)

The existence of Netflix & WhatsApp doesn't indicate no correlation, just not a perfect correlation :).  Although I suppose I'm being unfair there in that some of the Windows users represent actual FreeBSD users as well.

Nevertheless, I think Windows consumers are less frequently acculturated to speaking up in open-source land, so if anything we are underestimating their prevalence.

Unrelatedly, the existence of such high-profile FreeBSD users is encouraging :).  Perhaps this is more important to keep in the critical path than I was assuming.

-glyph

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