This doesn't prove anything, but I think the first plot at http://jakevdp.github.io/blog/2012/09/20/why-python-is-the-last/ is quite provocative.
Semi-related: I made a tiny optimization to jQuery a couple of months ago as a completely unknown first-time contributor. The time from doing the git clone to having the pull request merged into jQuery master was about an hour, which included signing their contributor agreement. Terry
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