Hi,
for those interested in statistical data here some numbers about the U-Boot mailing list. This is a quick and dirty result basing on my local archive, so there may be a few (minimal) differences like single-digit differences in the number ot messages per year or so.
Year Total number Messages Trend compared of messages per day to prev. year ------------------------------------------------------- 2002 497 1.4 +0.00% 2003 5621 15.4 +1030.99% 2004 7141 19.6 +27.04% 2005 5572 15.3 -21.97% 2006 6274 17.2 +12.60% 2007 9548 26.2 +52.18% 2008 18446 50.5 +93.19% 2009 21358 58.5 +15.79% 2010 18963 52.0 -11.21% 2011 28839 79.0 +52.08% 2012 29518 80.9 +2.35% 2013 27110 74.3 -8.16% 2014 30339 83.1 +11.91% 2015 40101 109.9 +32.18% 2016 37785 103.5 -5.78% 2017 38698 106.0 +2.42% 2018 38022 104.2 -1.75%
It would be interesting to analyze what happened in 2007, 2008, 2011 and 2015 to result in such a jump of messages...
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk