[DFW.pm] Fwd: Make Perl #1 on git.io/top
Reini Urban
reini at cpanel.net
Tue Jul 29 12:16:16 PDT 2014
On 07/29/2014 02:03 PM, Robert Flach wrote:
> 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.
Good point. Call me convinced. Please follow the top perl'ers.
> 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 <http://git.io/top>
> Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2014 17:03:39 -0400
> From: Henry Van Styn via yapc <jfields.yapcna.org
> <http://jfields.yapcna.org>=spammenot.com
> <http://spammenot.com>@pm.org>
> Reply-To: Henry Van Styn <jfields.yapcna.org
> <http://jfields.yapcna.org>=spammenot.com
> <http://spammenot.com>@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 yourhttps://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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