[DFW.pm] Fwd: Make Perl #1 on git.io/top

[Shaun Dawson]

What is it that we have to do, exactly?  Follow him?

Shaun


On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 9:08 AM, Tommy Butler <dfwpm at internetalias.net>
wrote:

>  Done!
>
> --
> Tommy Butler
>
> On Jul 28, 2014, John Fields <wigthft at gmail.com> <wigthft at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>>
>> -------- Original Message --------  Subject: Make Perl #1 on git.io/top  Date:
>> Sat, 26 Jul 2014 17:03:39 -0400  From: Henry Van Styn via yapc
>> <jfields.yapcna.org=spammenot.com at pm.org>
>> <jfields.yapcna.org=spammenot.com at pm.org>  Reply-To: Henry Van Styn
>> <jfields.yapcna.org=spammenot.com at pm.org>
>> <jfields.yapcna.org=spammenot.com at pm.org>  To: yapc at pm.org
>>
>>  I don’t normally send out messages like this, but I think this is
>> worthwhile, because it is a simple way we can promote our beloved Perl to
>> the larger OSS world, even if just a little…
>>
>>  I came across our very own Kent Fredric’s GitHub profile today and did
>> a double-take when I read his contrib stats:
>>
>>       https://github.com/kentfredric       # "Year of contributions -
>> 21,996 total”
>>
>>  Without even speculating by what kind of dedication/witchcraft this
>> number is even possible, it made me curious about stats in general for
>> GitHub, and some googling turned up this page:
>>
>>       http://git.io/top
>>
>>  This is a report of the “Most Active” 256 GitHub users. Well, not
>> quite… The current number 1 on the list has HALF the contribs (kevinsawicki
>> at “11,430”). kentfredric doesn’t show up because of this second caveat:
>> "Only first 1000 GitHub users according to the count of followers are
>> taken. This is because of limitations of GitHub search.”
>>
>>  So, it seems all we need to do is have a few hundred people follow
>> kentfredric (based on followers counts of others who did make the list) and
>> the next time this report is generated, Kent, and thus Perl, will take over
>> the number 1 slot — and by a commanding margin (as it should be) — and
>> dethroning JavaScript.
>>
>>  Currently, Perl is very poorly represented, with just a handful of our
>> luminaries showing up (with the first not coming until #40).
>>
>>  I’m not sure how important this report/page actually is, but, I figure,
>> why not if it is this easy! kentnl has already quietly done the hard part
>> by somehow managing to average over **60** GitHub contributions per day,
>> every day, for at least the past 365 days. All we have to do it make 2
>> clicks of the mouse, and tell our coworkers to do the same. It seems like
>> we can make this happen in a blink of an eye…
>>
>>  kentfredric++
>>
>>
>>  - vanstyn
>>
>>  Henry Van Styn
>> <vanstyn at cpan.org>
>>
>>
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