Make Perl #1 on git.io/top

[Mark Keating]

On 26/07/2014 22:03, Henry Van Styn via yapc 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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IMHO You should send messages like this out more - thanks and regards to 
everyone else who joined in.
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