JOSM development in the last year

[Dirk Stöcker]

Hello,

another year is done. To satisfy curiosity I'll give some stats about what 
we were doing last year.

JOSM is still a 100% volunteer project. Server is sponsored by FOSSGIS, 
otherwise no money flows (thought I can't speak for the patch submitters, 
but I'm sure none is working full-time for JOSM :-)

I talked to people at conferences and some wondered about that fact: They 
assumed JOSM consists of a group of at least 5 paid workers.

JOSM Server-Stats:
- Incoming IP-Traffic 13TB/year, outgoing IP-Traffic 14TB/year (together that is a constant 7MBit/s :-)
- Wiki/ticket submissions 350.000/year with a SPAM quota of 97%
- About 50 SPAM slipping through per year and need manual fixing (usually they are also manual entered)
- That leaves about 10.000 valid wiki/ticket submissions a year!
- 13 million page views and 29 million page impressions (majority of bots and also JOSM filtered out)
- Server is using about 500GB harddisk space
- New tickets: 1300/year (count of new and closed tickets last year approx. equal)
- 1000 SVN revisions of JOSM core
- I'm not aware of major troubles this year, server runs smoothly (uptime is 312 days BTW :-).

As you can see by these numbers JOSM isn't a small hobby project (for some 
time now). Ohlooh estimates costs to about 190 man-years. A lot of 
contribution goes into it.

Some info based on the statistics we gather via the JOSM requests to the 
JOSM server (recent stats, vary always by a few %):
- Mainly used with Java 8 (72%), Java 11 (16%) and Java 12 (8%)
- 99% IPv4 and only 1% IPv4 users (web-page has higher IPv6 ratio)
- 54% Windows, 37% Linux, 9% MacOS (Linux numbers are going up...)
- 46% English, 17% German, 7% French, 6% Russian, 5% British, 3% Polish users based on the choosen GUI language.
- Majority of users using tested version, approx 70% using one of the last 3 (i.e. version of October to December)

Thanks to all the people contributing to JOSM in one of the many ways 
possible. Major thanks to my co-admin Vincent who does most of the work 
regarding the ticket handling. Special thanks to translators who come by 
and simply translate a lot.

A note to some people: Be more relaxed.

Happy new year to everybody out there
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