[Python-ideas] A bit meta

[Antoine Pitrou]

Stefan Krah <skrah.temporarily at ...> writes:
> 
> It does not sound interesting at all -- Python development is increasingly
> turning into a circus, with fewer and fewer people actually writing code.

An interesting metric is to compute how much the set of posters on this
"meta" thread intersects the set of the most active developers:

$ hg churn -c -d "2015 to 2016"
storchaka at gmail.com              1142 *************************************
victor.stinner at gmail.com          803 **************************
benjamin at python.org               582 *******************
yselivanov at sprymix.com            441 **************
tjreedy at udel.edu                  394 *************
steve.dower at microsoft.com         302 **********
berker.peksag at gmail.com           285 *********
python at rcn.com                    265 *********
zachary.ware at gmail.com            236 ********
vadmium+py at gmail.com              220 *******
larry at hastings.org                158 *****
nad at acm.org                       121 ****
rdmurray at bitdance.com             113 ****
rbtcollins at hp.com                 106 ***
[...]


(of course this is not entirely fair, since some people like Donald are
quite active in other related areas)

Regards

Antoine.