[Foundation-l] We have the problem

[Milos Rancic]

> - Communication at this list, as well as other common communication
> channels (except blogs!), tends to decline. I am sending this message
> after two days without any email. While it may be explained with
> weekend days or so, it is definitely not so usual. One day without
> emails is usual just for holidays.

I made a tool for analyzing activity on the lists. It is not complete
(there are a lot of data which may be used), but here are the first
results:

October will be finished as the October with lowest number of messages
for all years. July and September are at three years minimums, while
August last year is just slightly lower than it was this year. Not so
good indicator is also a tendency that, out of the first year (2004),
number of emails tended to raise at the last quarter of the year. This
year we have decline in number of emails from September to October.

Numbers confirm that the best year was 2006.

Numbers represent number of messages per month. Use fixed font for better look.

2004	xxx	xxx	xxx	64	532	506	474	242	462	650	276	282	
2005	630	760	642	574	690	438	396	684	488	758	1074	672	
2006	514	506	860	588	910	1666	1262	1670	2180	1206	1116	2530	
2007	1138	624	665	1042	798	407	1163	471	791	1072	1030	1260	
2008	1497	688	1679	1675	1131	942	609	501	699	506	xxx	xxx