Keep up the good work, Daniel.

Thanks :)

Jake

On 12/23/05, Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se> wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> We're at the end of yet another year, and I thought I'd take the
> opportunity
> to sum things up before I take my christmas holiday...
>
> We managed to produce seven public releases during 2005. Looking back over
> the
> years, we have slowed down the relase pace. In 2000 for example, we did 14
> releases.
>
> Three security vulnerabilities were found and reported. I personally think
> this is because people are slowly realizing that (lib)curl is used
> incredibly
> much and there is defintely a point in doing code reviews and scans for
> source
> code mistakes.
>
> The average amount of daily visits on curl.haxx.se raised from 3200 in
> December 2004 to over 5200 so far in December 2005.
>
> In 2004 the main web site served 600,000 unique visitors. For 2005 we're
> at
> 1,030,000 and counting. Every month, more than 100,000 unique visitors
> drop
> by.
>
> At the beginning of this year we had 15 web mirrors. Now we're at 27 - and
> then I continue to remove sites from the list when they go stale or just
> aren't synced properly...
>
> We currently keep track of 262 different download packages of curl on the
> download page and download wizard. We list 49 named companies using
> libcurl
> commerically (notable newcomers on that list this year is Adobe Acrobat
> Reader
> and Google Earth).
>
> During 2005, I personally sent over 4000 emails. More than 2200 of them
> were
> curl related. I received some 6300 curl-related emails (including my own
> 1800
> posts to the mailing lists).
>
> curl continued to be my number one spare time hobby and open source
> project
> I'm involved in. I've spent roughly 10-15 hours per week on curl trough
> the
> year.
>
> In October 2005 I received funding for improving libcurl and have spent
> December working on this project. I hope to complete it in spring/summer
> 2006,
> depending on how my regular job schedule turns out.
>
> The 72 bug reports submitted in the bug tracker during the year, were
> closed
> after 6.1 days in average. It is in fact slightly slower than the 68
> submitted
> last year that were closed after 5.2 days, but I still consider that very
> good.
>
> Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! Let's make next year even better.
>
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>
Received on 2005-12-24