An Observation

Michel Fortin michel.fortin at michelf.com
Sat May 14 17:36:33 EDT 2011



Le 2011-05-14 à 15:55, Aristotle Pagaltzis a écrit :


> * Fletcher T. Penney <fletcher at fletcherpenney.net> [2011-05-14 16:50]:

>> I was looking at the original Markdown syntax specification,

>> and became curious as to the last time Gruber posted anything

>> to this discusion list. According to some searches of the

>> archives using some Google tricks, the last post I could find

>> from him was in 2009.

>>

>> Just thought that was interesting.

>

> An anatomy of a loss of interest:

>

> 2004 279

> 2005 153

> 2006 78

> 2007 25 (21 in the first half of the year)

> 2008 6 (2 in Feb; 4 in a row in mid-March)

> 2009 4 (in row in late Feb)

> 2010 0

> 2011 0

>

> It’s not uncommon. Most of my own projects look like this…

>

> I just wish we’d get one last release out of him that takes the

> beta label off the last version and fixes the couple of small

> things Gruber himself already agreed years ago should be changed

> in certain ways. (Eg. not triggering emphasis on word-internal

> underscores.)


You should add a new column for the total number of posts.

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