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I'm curious as to the average age of committers by project under the ASF vs. popular projects on github. My hypothesis is that they would be older by a signific
by ryanmarsh 15y ago
I'm curious as to the average age of committers by project under the ASF vs. popular projects on github. My hypothesis is that they would be older by a significant margin.
- chaseideas 15y agoI would agree with that hypothesis. What I've observed from running http://www.Apache.com http://www.Apache.com for several years, is indeed an older crowd (40+) by a nice margin compared to a lot of the younger projects floating around that are generating a ton of buzz. It's been much more rare in my experience to see a 20 something hipster programmer seriously diving in with the ASF. I'm generalizing though of course... The type of questions and people I interact with through that project are older engineering types, and those with a long history in the programming and computer scene. Usually with an old-school *nix approach to things. Just wanted to chime in with that, since like stated elsewhere in the HN comments, I think this blog post is more about the organization structure and members of the ASF than the actual Apache Web Server project... which we all love so dearly. ;) - Chase
- nirvdrum 15y agoI think you're right, but they overlap too, so hard to give a completely clear picture. I.e., every Apache person I've met also uses GitHub. Obviously the converse is not true.