I was asked to prepare some stats on pkgsrc's growth, as part of the
celebrations of pkgsrc-2016Q1, pkgsrc's fiftieth quarterly release.

The mail in http://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-announce/2004/02/02/0000.html
says:

	By my calculations, at the end of December 2003, there were 4310
	packages in the NetBSD Packages Collection, up from 4170 the previous
	month, a rise of only 140.  We also tagged a new branch for pkgsrc,
	which is being actively maintained - the branch is called
	"pkgsrc-2003Q4".  As the name implies, we will be branching pkgsrc on
	a regular basis from now on, and maintaining the branch.

We had previously cut pkgsrc releases to coincide with NetBSD
releases, and for some other events, but pkgsrc-2003Q4 can be seen
as the first branch where pkgsrc was really its own entity. It can be
checked out with the "pkgsrc-2003Q4" tag, and browsed at:

	http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/pkgsrc/?only_with_tag=pkgsrc-2003Q4
	https://github.com/jsonn/pkgsrc.git

We keep a complete log of changes we have made to pkgsrc since its inception.
At the lowest level, pkgsrc-2003Q4 had 3059 pkgsrc entries, whilst 2016Q1
had 14311 pkgsrc entries. Due to different versions of some languages, like
python, perl, ruby and php, the number of packages is a much higher number.
For instance, 2003Q4 had 4310 packages, and 2016Q1 had 17154.

To see how pkgsrc has spread across platforms, 2003Q4 supported 7 platforms,
2016Q1 supports 23 platforms.

In addition, pkgsrc has now grown its own conference. The first pkgsrccon was
in Vienna in 2004 -- see https://www.pkgsrc.org/pkgsrcCon/2004/ and this
year's pkgsrccon is in Krakow -- see https://www.pkgsrc.org/pkgsrcCon/2016/
A map of the pkgsrccon venues can be found here:

	https://www.netbsd.org/~agc/pkgsrccon.png

For more information on specific numbers of packages added, deleted and updated,
over the years from its inception until now, please see the image at

	https://www.netbsd.org/~agc/pkgsrc-perspective-2016Q1.png

Alistair Crooks
for the pkgsrc team
Sun May  8 11:26:15 PDT 2016