On 21 September 2012 09:00, afayolle <afayolle...@free.fr> wrote: > But I found the graph in the "Github" section very > interesting, especially since I'm now in the position of an external > contributor.
To add another datapoint to this: IPython also moved to Github in Autumn 2010, and here's the number of contributors each month: http://www.ohloh.net/p/ipython/contributors/summary Of course, some of the increase is 'drive by' contributions - little fixes that core developers could do in a few minutes. But that's quite healthy, because a lot of those are things that core developers wouldn't get round to any time soon. Anecdotally, I also think that making it easy to contribute makes people more likely to contribute again. I don't think the mechanism necessarily has to be pull requests, but I do think there should be simple instructions for new contributors. For example, I made a minor contribution to logilab-astng a few months ago. Here's the home page: http://www.logilab.org/856 It's not obvious to a newcomer how to contribute. There's a patches tab, but no 'submit' option there, and the patches it lists are a year old, so it's probably not in use. Source code? It's easy to view files and commits, but there's nothing about making changes. Best wishes, Thomas _______________________________________________ Python-Projects mailing list Python-Projects@lists.logilab.org http://lists.logilab.org/mailman/listinfo/python-projects
