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

[Robert Flach]

Actually following on github only gets you notifications in your timeline of forks, new repos and when that user follows someone else.   It does not give you their individual commits; to get those you would need to subscribe to a particular repository.  

On July 29, 2014 1:13:20 PM CDT, Reini Urban <reini at cpanel.net> wrote:
>On 07/28/2014 12:01 AM, John Fields 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>
>> Reply-To: 	Henry Van Styn <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.”
>
>Count of followers > 273 only?
>
>I have got 2,380 "years of contribs", which would be #82 and the 3rd 
>highest perl dev in this funky list, but I'm also not there, because of
>
>57 followers. Who else? Many I guess.
>
>#40 tokohirom 3411 years, 536 followers
>#68 audreyt   2625 years, 710 followers
>
>How should one trust this metric? Following means being spammed by
>every 
>commit/contrib in your https://github.com/ timeline.
>I'm not sure if I want to follow kentfredric mass commits or if you 
>should follow me. If you follow me you'll get bi-hourly all openssl and
>
>libressl changes, done via a cronjob of course. Lotta work, but not
>mine.
>
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