On 2024-08-01 22:10:58 +0100 (+0100), Luca Boccassi wrote: > On Thu, 1 Aug 2024 at 18:23, Jeremy Stanley <fu...@yuggoth.org> wrote: > > > > On 2024-08-01 12:23:43 +0100 (+0100), Luca Boccassi wrote: > > [...] > > > To pick a random example, a less well known, less used, less > > > popular distribution like Nixos has 7000+ contributors listed on > > > Github. > > [...] > > > > Just to pick on this particular point, because I see this metric > > used all the time by projects trying to inflate public impressions > > of their size: you're aware that GitHub counts someone as a > > "contributor" even if all the do is leave a comment on a bug report, > > right? By that gauge, Debian is probably orders of magnitude larger. > > I'm not, no, I thought it was committers/authors? But I haven't really > looked it up so you might very well be right. Where did you find that > defined?
Okay, it looks like I was conflating what GitHub counts as a "contribution" vs what kind of contribution makes someone a project "contributor." <URL: https://docs.github.com/en/account-and-profile/setting-up-and-managing-your-github-profile/managing-contribution-settings-on-your-profile/viewing-contributions-on-your-profile#what-counts-as-a-contribution> It was contribution counts I was remembering being inflated, not contributor counts. My apologies for the noise. -- Jeremy Stanley
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