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

[John Fields]

Yeah, just follow!  He already has more commits than many others but since
he didn't have enough "followers" his stats didn't count.  Stupid but there
it is.  :)
On Jul 29, 2014 11:20 AM, "Shaun Dawson" <scdawson at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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