On Sat, Oct 12, 2019 at 11:20:01AM -0400, Matthew Miller wrote: > On Fri, Oct 11, 2019 at 05:53:26PM -0400, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > > There has been a shrinking packager problem for years due to multiple > > problems > > Has there? I'm not really seeing a significant change in the number of > people making changes in dist-git over time. See attached svg. Maybe a > little down from 2013-2016, but seems mostly flat 2016-2019. > > It's not significantly growing, which may be a problem itself, but let's not > get over-dramatic without evidence. > > https://mattdm.org/fedora/fedora-contributor-trends/git.user.count.svg > > Also see the Contributors by Week graph here > > https://mattdm.org/fedora/fedora-contributor-trends/active-contributors-by-week.svg > > although note I don't have that broken out with _just_ dist-git activity (it > also includes bodhi karma and wiki edits). > > Again, not seeing the growth I'd love, but I also don't see a contributor > crisis.
Based on those graphs, I'd say there's slow shrinking. It appears to be linear since ~2016. But what is interesting, is that the shrinking mostly affects "the occasional contributor": the green top 1% appear unchanged, the yellow top 10% barely budge, but the last 50% is clearly shrinking. Zbyszek _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
