Thanks for sharing the figure. The data seems correlated with the number of new Debian accounts. See the figure below: Python Code for this figure:
``` # modified from ChatGPT. # XXX: members.csv is copy-pasted from https://nm.debian.org/members/ import pandas as pd import matplotlib.pyplot as plt df = pd.read_csv('members.csv', sep='\t') df = df[df['Since'] != '(unknown)'] # filter out invalid data df['Since'] = pd.to_datetime(df['Since']) df['Year'] = df['Since'].dt.year account_counts = df['Year'].value_counts().sort_index() smoothed_counts = account_counts.rolling(window=3).mean() plt.figure(figsize=(10, 6)) plt.bar(account_counts.index, account_counts.values, color='skyblue') plt.plot(smoothed_counts.index, smoothed_counts.values, color='orange', label=f'Smoothed (Window=3)') plt.xlabel('Year') plt.ylabel('Number of Accounts Created') plt.title('Number of Accounts Created Each Year') plt.legend() plt.savefig('nm-year.png') ``` On Wed, 2023-12-27 at 21:12 +0100, Rafael Laboissière wrote: > Dear Debian fellows, > > This is a very simple-minded analysis about the Debian community > (lack > of) renewal and project obsolescence: > > https://salsa.debian.org/rafael/debian-contrib-years > > containing interesting comments made by Sébastien Villemot. > > Best, > > Rafael Laboissière, DD >
