Allow me to be very skeptical, are you sure your numbers is not main contributors because I find it hard to believe that Python that has around 2 million coders world wide
https://blog.pythonanywhere.com/67/ has ONLY 92 total contributors ? I would assume an estimate of around 1000 including those that have just one simple bug fix. On Sun, Sep 25, 2016 at 5:31 PM Ben Coman <[email protected]> wrote: > Just bumped into some interesting statistics to consider when the > minor worry occasionally arises that Pharo is not more popular. > > One aspect to measure the liveness and success of a project is the > number of developers contributing to it. From the attached png, here > are the number of developers for some very popular projects... > 57 Apache > 40 Ant > 92 Python > 25 Perl > 29 PostgrSQL > > and from the list of contributors at http://pharo.org/about > 91 Pharo > > Now some care is the comparison since the first group are from 2006 > and Pharo is 2016, and maybe the Pharo is an all-of-time list of > contributors. > > But Python's 2016 committers list has 138 names > https://hg.python.org/committers.txt > > and Github shows all-of-time list of contributors of 100 > https://github.com/python/cpython/graphs/contributors > where you can see from individual graphs that many have not committed > for years.. > > > So with caution I think we can take away that while Pharo does not > *yet* have the hordes of followers some other languages have, the > Pharo project is doing a reasonable job of attracting the interest of > contributing developers, which is a key indicator for future success. > > cheers -ben >
