Re: Emacs author stats

[Artur Malabarba <bruce.connor.am@gmail.com>]

You're right that attracting huge droves of developers didn’t happen,
and it's always nice to see numbers and data, but 5 months is not a
very relevant sample here for the purpose of finding an
upward/downward pattern.
Note how much the number has fluctuated over the last 4 years, the
range of some flucuations is as large as the average value.
We'd need to wait another year, and probably average over every 2 or 3
months, in order to see any patterns.

Also, I think number of committers would be a more relevant metric,
altough this number would be even smaller and less reliable.

2015-04-23 18:41 GMT+01:00 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>:
> I wondered whether switching to git had any effect, developer wise, so I
> whipped up some stats:
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> http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no/2015/04/23/the-effect-of-version-control-systems-on-emacs-developers/
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> The Emacs Lisp functions I wrote to make the stats are on github (linked
> from the article), so feel free to fix the data if my methodology is
> unsound.  :-)
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