On Thu, Apr 11, 2019 at 3:32 PM Rich Bowen <rbo...@rcbowen.com> wrote:

> Your suggestion of surveying non-committer Github contributors certainly
> has merit, but, having tried to gather that kind of data in the past
> (ie, actual contact info for contributors to an open source project,
> based on Github names), it's not particularly easy, as even the people
> that list their email address on Github (which is not everyone, by a
> long shot) consider it pretty spammy to receive surveys.
>

Also, focusing on github contributions would leave out people who provide
customer support.  And documentation and graphics might not compare
appropriately in size with code contributions either.  But non-code
contributors is one of our biggest problem-areas IMHO.

Best,
Myrle

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