Make Perl #1 on git.io/top

[Faelin McCaley Landy]

This sounds like a very worthwhile endeavors. As of now, Kents_Backers++
(now maybe I'll actually start using Git xD)


On Sat, Jul 26, 2014 at 11:24 PM, Ingy dot Net via yapc <yapc at pm.org> wrote:

> 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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