Make Perl #1 on git.io/top

[Henry Van Styn]

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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