[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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