Hi Andreas,
On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 8:47 AM, Andreas Raab andreas.raab@gmx.de wrote:
interesting, thanks; but these are all Squeak-ish in some ways. Is there a statistics facility for such questions on SourceForge? Going to look ...
Dunno. The only other thing I saw was about Linux kernel development here:
https://www.linuxfoundation.org/publications/linuxkerneldevelopment.php
But these numbers are so out there that they're not comparable. I mean 700+ developers from 90+ companies :-)
right ... well, I've just sat down with two students and found some numbers for Rails and Ruby. The Rails numbers were determined from the git repository, so they have to be taken with one or more grains of salt; the Ruby numbers are from SVN.
Following the 80 % rule, the Rails community consists of 12 individuals, and so does the Ruby community.
I never thought those communities were *so* small given the relevance of Rails and Ruby. Wow.
Please forgive the irony,
Michael