[python-committers] Interview with Coverity

[Brian Curtin]

On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 6:55 PM, Christian Heimes <christian at python.org> wrote:
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> Hello,
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> Kristin Brennan from Coverity has asked me for an interview about
> Python core development and how we are using Coverity Scan. Coverity
> is planing to have a monthly series of interviews with open source
> projects that use their service, for example
> http://www.coverity.com/company/press-releases/read/coverity-introduces-monthly-spotlight-series-for-coverity-scan-open-source-projects
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> She has send me a list of questions up front. I like you to review and
> comment on my preliminary answers, please.
>
> Thanks,
> Christian
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> Q: How many active developers do you have contributing to the project?
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> - - 174 according to http://hg.python.org/committers.txt
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> - - 152 according to
> http://bugs.python.org/user?iscommitter=1&@action=search&@sort=username&@pagesize=300
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> - - about 60 active according to https://www.ohloh.net/p/python/
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> - - about 360 contributors agreements (513 - 152) according to
> http://bugs.python.org/user?contrib_form=yes&%40action=search
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> - - about 1400 names in Misc/ACKS

I would simplify and say something like this: Of the project's 174
committers, around 60 are recently active, with contributions coming
from many others.

Perhaps try to figure out how many names were added to ACKS within the
last year, then double it to get an estimate of non-committers who are
active?