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Unique contributors since open source launch is strange?

• stonogo 13y ago
  "Unique contributors within inital 86-day window of project upload to Github" is not equivalent to "unique contributors since open-source launch."
  • schmatz 13y ago
    You're right, that's true. It's not the ideal metric, but it's one that is realistic to compute with limited time and resources. To analyze that statistic using a growth metric like "largest 30 day average contributor gain" across such a gigantic dataset, consisting of hundreds of millions of rows and tens of millions of unique repositories, requires resources and engineer time which few people possess. We certainly don't want to divert too much of either of those things away from development of CodeCombat just for a fun data science experiment!
    • stonogo 13y ago
      So you narrowed the problem set down to one that was sufficiently effortless, then uploaded a blog post declaring yourself world champions. I'm not sure that makes anything better. "Fastest-growing open-source project, as far as we care" is a perfectly fine headline. What you've got now is disingenuous and baselessly self-congratulatory.