Released 3.2

[Gunnar Aastrand Grimnes]

We have released RDFLib 3.2!

This release brings python 3 support, improved test-coverage and
documentation. Now all the tests pass on all python versions 2.4 -> 3
and the documentation is actually up to date and correct!

Thanks to everyone who helped test, document and sort things out!
Especially to Thomas Kluyver for all the python 3 work and to Graham
Higgins for setting up Jenkins and great work in sorting out the tests
and docs!

Interesting links:

* PyPi release: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/rdflib/3.2.0
* Mercurial tag: http://code.google.com/p/rdflib/source/browse/?name=3.2.0
* Docs: http://readthedocs.org/docs/rdflib/en/latest/ (still showing
3.2.0rc, should change shortly)
* Jenkins continuous integration:
https://jenkins.shiningpanda.com/rdflib/job/rdflib/

- Gunnar

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[drewpca]

Great job everyone, especially on getting the CI stuff in good shape. My main project is on a very-hacked 2.4.1 from 2008. I hope to try to get back on mainline releases, and if anything breaks I know where I can install my failing tests :)

[Graham Higgins]

I was looking at the rdflib download stats nicely presented on Jess Noller's crate.io:

http://crate.io/packages/rdflib/

I was rather surprised at the number of downloads of 3.1.0:

http://crate.io/packages/rdflib/3.1.0/

94,445 - really?

Cheers,

Graham

[Gunnar Aastrand Grimnes]

Wow - that's not bad! Now we already talked about this - we do not get
that many support requests, and we wondered if it's because no-one
uses rdflib, or that it's just self-explanatory and bug-free.

Seems now we know the answer - even WITH the outdated docs in 3.1 :)

(btw - the numbers are all from pypi - cratie.io is just a prettier front-end)

- Gunnar

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[Thomas Kluyver]

On 30 January 2012 04:36, Graham Higgins <gjhi...@gmail.com> wrote:

I was rather surprised at the number of downloads of 3.1.0:

http://crate.io/packages/rdflib/3.1.0/

94,445 - really?

Total downloads: 98,139. So 96% of rdflib downloads are for one specific version. It averages something like 300 downloads per day, whereas in the few days since 3.2.0 appeared, that has averaged more like 30 downloads per day. I suspect there's something that we're not seeing at work - maybe some major project specified rdflib as a dependency, so it's getting downloaded automatically.

Anyway, good job.

Thomas

[Graham Higgins]

You're probably right Thomas.

This is mostly only idle speculation on my part, I was pondering on the approximate size of the rdflib userbase while considering how much effort to put in to publicising new releases.

PyPi downloads is one statistic, stats on clones of the repos is another (only provided by github, afaict) and then of course there's the official distros from fedora and ubuntu.

I can't find any popularity stats for fedora but afaict fedora and ubuntu seem to have more or the less same uptake, so the ubuntu stats can be considered a weak proxy:

http://popcon.ubuntu.com/universe/python/by_inst 

summay: installs=1254917,  votes/actually-use=7822, installed-but-not-regularly-used=1244738 , recently-upgraded=1968

which is more in line with my expectations.

Cheers,

Graham