Re: Fwd: Current PHP Global Network Statistics

On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 2:12 PM, Daniel Brown<danbrown@php.net> wrote: >    Guys and gals (particularly those of you interested in the trends > and metrics of PHP), here's a forwarded copy of an email I just fired > off to the mirrors around the world after completion of the first of > three phases of an upgrade operation.  Where does your server stand? > What about your development box(es)?  Please share your thoughts with > the class.  ;-P > > > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Daniel Brown <danbrown AT php DOT net> > Date: Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 14:05 > Subject: Current PHP Global Network Statistics > To: PHP Mirrors List <php-mirrors AT lists DOT php DOT net> > > >    ALL: > >    As you may now already know, after completing the first phase of > the upgrade operation, all mirrors are running PHP5.  Here is a > breakdown of all versions, as well as some other statistics you may > find interesting. > >    Overall: > >        Total Mirrors, World-Wide:        118 >        % of Mirrors with SQLite:          65.3% >        % of Mirrors with Stats:            37.3% >        % of Mirrors Running PHP5:     100.0% > >    By version: > >        5.0.3: 1 >        5.0.4: 1 >        5.1.1: 1 >        5.1.2: 2 >        5.1.6: 20 >        5.2.0: 8 >        5.2.1: 3 >        5.2.3: 2 >        5.2.4: 7 >        5.2.5: 2 >        5.2.6: 17 >        5.2.8: 12 >        5.2.9: 23 >        5.2.10: 12 >        5.3.0: 6 >        5.3.1: 1 > >    Subject to deletion in Phase II: 5 >    Running development versions: 1 > >    Content Age Sampling: > >        Oldest Mirror:                 963096 Seconds (NOTE: Disabled, > Pending Delete) >        Youngest Mirrors:           98 Seconds >        Most Common Ages:      1891 Seconds, 3699 Seconds >        Total Average Age:          26160.2 Seconds (7 Hours, 16 Minutes) >        Adjusted Average Age:    18083.2 Seconds (5 Hours, 1 Minute) >            [NOTE: Adjustment removes disabled mirror from calculation.] > > >    Thanks again, as always, for everyone's hard work and dedication. > We're looking forward to working with all of you for a long time to > come! > > -- > </Daniel P. Brown> > daniel.brown@parasane.net || danbrown@php.net > http://www.parasane.net/ || > http://www.pilotpig.net/ > Check out our great hosting and dedicated server deals at > http://twitter.com/pilotpig > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > I'm not entirely sure what you're expecting here, but I'll take a stab, I suppose! We recently switched to 5.3.0 on production machines (a shame, I know) after some extensive testing in our development and staging environment deemed the release //stable for our uses//. Outside of that, I've one machine that's running latest SVN checkout of the 5.3 branch. Why is 5.1.6 such a popular release for the mirrors, just the fact it's the last release in the 5.1 series? Why is 5.1.6 such a popular release for the PHP mirrors?