On 07/05/2012 07:40 PM, Mark Holmquist wrote:
So, 92 unique
committers in June. Which is way better than Ohloh has
been saying, yay.
I'd like to confirm that number, 92 unique contributors in June is
absolutely correct. I've also scriptified my method, so now I can do
multiple months.
Month | Unique contributors
------------+--------------------
July so far | 60
------------+--------------------
June | 92
------------+--------------------
May | 77
------------+--------------------
April | 67
------------+--------------------
March | 34
------------+--------------------
February | 2
Thanks for that, Mark! Yeah, that's also way better than Ohloh thinks
<https://www.ohloh.net/p/mediawiki>. I've gone back and updated the
April and May months of the engineering report on
mediawiki.org, e.g.,
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_engineering_report/2012/May .
A note or two: July is high because we have a lot of
regular committers,
I suppose. You could confirm that by graphing how many contributors are
added by adding on one day at a time. My guess is you'll get a nice
steep line at first that tapers out to nearly 0 at the end of 30 days.
Also, I'm sure the earlier months have inadequate sample sizes to be
relevant, since the extensions had to take some time to transfer over,
and apparently February was just for testing.
Of course, the coolest thing is that each month so far has seen at least
10 additional contributors! :)
That is indeed a great thing to see! And, based on the monthly reports,
I believe the most unique committers we ever had in a month was 100,
including people making localisation commits - January 2012. So I infer
that we are recovering nicely from the transition cost of the Git move.
(Also, this isn't counting people who contribute to the mobile projects
on GitHub, and really the final monthly report stat ought to. I don't
quickly see a way to ask "how many unique contributors submitted unique
pull requests to a
https://github.com/wikimedia/ repo in June?" on
GitHub, though, so I'll put that off till next month.)
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Sumana Harihareswara
Engineering Community Manager
Wikimedia Foundation