I think your idea of filtering out account that actually contributed is a wise thing, especially because our product has many end-users that want to be informed but do not contribute.
As a developer I do not care, but thinking of some of the ongoing discussions in other forums (like: nearly nobody contributes to AOO anymore because Apache rules makes it far to difficult and restrictive), makes it worth while to publish a figure on our web, especially a figure saying e.g. "during the last year we had xxx active contributors and xx active committers". jan. On 19 October 2012 17:28, Rob Weir <robw...@apache.org> wrote: > I recently saw another open source project claim that they had over > 3000 contributors. They derived this estimate by looking at the > number of user accounts they had in their wiki. > > That is quite clever, I thought. Since we use the same wiki software, > I thought I'd check this metric for us. Our wiki says we have over > 58,000 user accounts. > > I know we're doing well, but would it really make sense to claim that > we have over 58,000 contributors? I don't think so. > > I suppose we could look only at accounts where the person has actually > contributed edits, or even recent edits. (MediaWiki is a well-known > target of registration spam). Although the other project did not seem > to filter out inactive or unused accounts, I think the metrics are > meaningless unless we do that. > > What do you think? Or do we even care? > > -Rob >
