Make Perl #1 on git.io/top

[Mark Keating]

Someone needs to blog about this and then tweet/share and get it in the 
Perl Weekly (Gabor, Yannick you guys about?):


Okay I JFDI it and the blog about it is here:

http://blogs.perl.org/users/shadowcat_mdk/2014/07/lets-top-gitio.html

  - big Kudos to Vanstyn, Ingy and Faelin for leading me here.

On 27/07/2014 05:16, Faelin McCaley Landy via yapc wrote:
> 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 
> <mailto: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 <mailto: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 <mailto:vanstyn at cpan.org>>
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