The world map of developers (found here ) spawned a interesting question by myself. How many developers have there been and how many are active. Luckily enough Kloeri had a easy way to look it up. LDAP showed that there were 485 accounts and of those 316 developers are currently active. Not a bad ratio (of course this assumes no one say like I would do, would go clean up the accounts that have been stale for 3+ years).

So, why you might ask am I bringing this up. Well as is my nature of liking statistics, much to compnerds chagrin and my enjoyment of putting him in such a state, I’m going to do a few that users and developers might find interesting alike. In total as of 4:49 PM GMT on march 17th, 2006 gentoo has a total of 207270 commits via cia stats. In the 2.18 years that gentoo has been tracked that comes out to be a commit every 5.54 minutes, or 7923.16 messages a month. Taking every developer of the project, that would average out to 427.36 commits per person at a average time between commits of 1 day 20 hours and 39 minutes.

If, however you just take currently active dev’s of which there are some who’ve been around longer then the tracking no doubt. (Someone remind me to do some work with cia and chatting with dev’s about their time with the project…that’d be interesting as well. * hears compnerd die suddenly *)You would have something that looks like this: 655.94 commits per developer, at a average time between commits of 1 day 5 hours, and 6.6 minutes.

Now naturally there’s a few developers who commit a good bit more then the rest of us. Two that I can think of off the top of my head is vapier who happens to of the start of this writing done 18188 commits in the 2 years and flameeyes who has done a impressive 4537 in a year.

In all, its just some interesting data that I figured some other people would like to see. As for me I’ve done 238 in 3 months. I’m trying to do what seems to be a milestone of sorts in the group (or a subsection of it) to do 1000 commits in your first year, or approximately one commit every 8 hours and 45 minutes.

ps. by the end of writing this the total went up to 207274 commits