Some contributor stats

Some contributor stats

[Steve George]

Hi all,

I just finished inviting contributors to take the Guix Survey [0]. Overall, there are around 485 active contributors who've sent patches to the project in the last two years. That's an amazing figure for a volunteer project.

As you'd expect there are many long-term contributors who've been working in the project since the early days. There are also new people taking part, I found it interesting that in 2024 we've had roughly 130 new people send patches to the project. As you'd expect there's a range of contributions - from people sending in a single patch, to many sending 10-20, and then long-term contributors who've sent hundreds and in a hand full of cases over 1000 patches! 

Of course, the number of patches isn't an indicator of the value of someone's contribution. Rather, I take it to show the variety of contributions around Guix, and the community that's grown around it.

Note that this isn't a scientific study, it shows addresses not people and while I did try my best to find duplicates, I'm human so may have munged some parts - take the numbers as indicative!

Steve / Futurile

[0] this is from going through the Patchworks instance and looking at each contributor, it shows the number of patches they've sent (e.g. https://patches.guix-patches.cbaines.net/project/guix-patches/list/?series=&submitter=539)

Re: Some contributor stats

[Simon Tournier]

Hi Steve,

On Fri, 29 Nov 2024 at 16:22, Steve George <steve@futurile.net> wrote:

> I just finished inviting contributors to take the Guix Survey

Nice!  And thanks for the numbers, cool!

Do you plan to release some figures or plots based on the survey?

Cheers,
simon