Alpha Release Day Metrics

[Greg DeKoenigsberg]

On Tue, 5 Feb 2008, Mike McGrath wrote:

> How can we know if we're doing a good / bad job or a better / worse job?
> With metrics!  Well partially with metrics, here's some for the release
> today.
>
> Of the three main pages linked to or talked about here's how many hits
> each one got and where they came from.  With this we can see where good
> outlets and bad outlets are.  We did make the front page of /. which helps
> explain why our /wiki/Releases/9/Alpha/ReleaseNotes page got so many hits.
> I'll send this same information out in a few days to see how we did.
>
> We didn't make it to the front page of digg today, by contrast Ubuntu got
> front paged with 1685 for their alpha just 3 days ago.  How do we drum up
> more interest?

One cheap way: relentlessly drive everybody on this list, and others, to 
Digg stories about Fedora.

It's like ol' PT Barnum said: the best way to draw a crowd is with a 
crowd.

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