Make Perl #1 on git.io/top

[Ingy dot Net]

Using the git-hub commandline Git command for GitHub (
https://github.com/ingydotnet/git-hub#readme ) I was able to find out how
many followers each of these leaders have:
https://gist.github.com/ingydotnet/00083efb975c3e51f208

It looks like 288 is lowest number of followers, so we should be able to
get Kent there easily. (He's at 54 now -- `git hub user kentfredric`).

Cheers, Ingy


On Sat, Jul 26, 2014 at 2:03 PM, Henry Van Styn via yapc <yapc at pm.org>
wrote:

> 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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