hi,
I did a little bit of calculation based on
http://stats.cpantesters.org/testers.html
and got these data points:
There are a total of 12,832,563 reports from 1720 reporters
Chris Williams (BINGOS) sent in 4,487,765 (34%)
The top 6 reporters sent in 8,309,915 (64%)
The top 12 ppl (0.7%) sent in 1,0393,464 (80%)
The top 23 ppl (1.3%) sent in 11,640,359 (90%)
The top 46 ppl (2.6%) sent in 12,199,876 (95%)
The top 63 ppl (3.66%) sent in 12,378,913 (96.46%)
Which makes that the point of the so called 20-80 rule.
So in the case of the CPAN Testers it is more like 4-96 rule.
IMHO while the 20-80 rule is known in many situations 4-96 is a bit unhealthy.
There are two ways to make it more balanced, one to make BingOS stop
running smokers or, the better way is to get more people regularly send in
reports.
We can try to ask the open source perl community to do so, and I think
the talks and reports Barbie give encourage that a lot but we might think
of a way to get companies do so as well.
I know, I have not been sending reports even in my open source hat for a
while but when I am at a company I certainly feel discouraged to send
in reports.
You know, all kinds of agreements I signed like not using the
companies equipment
for other things.
I guess many people at companies would have the same issues.
So I wonder if there could be a way to encourage companies to so they will
encourage their employees to send in such reports?
The sore point of the companies is employment of Perl developers. So maybe
a leaderboard of *companies* with a counter of the reports their employees
sent in? So companies that are at least aware of the Perl community
will be encouraged?
Maybe creating some logos of the CPAN Testers (probably even including
a counter)
that can be displayed on web sites?
Of course any company that would employ BingOS would get an immediate and
unreachable boost - which might have an upward pressure on his salary as well
but I think this is an acceptable side-effect.
What do you think?
regards
Gabor
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Gabor Szabo
http://szabgab.com/
