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May 19, 2021 at 03:07
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The OCaml compiler saw a huge jump in contributors after moving to GitHub, and the effect has persisted. Source:
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Analyzing contributions to the OCaml compiler and all opam packages
Analyzing contributions to the OCaml compiler and all opam packages
Hi there, I recently learned of fornalder, a tool that creates nice visualizations of contributions to open-source projects by analyzing commits to their git repositories (the author used it to analyze GNOME contributions). I decided to use it to study contributions to the OCaml implementation and OCaml open-source packages, results below. The OCaml compiler distribution This graph shows the “contributor cohorts” for the OCaml compiler over time. For example, the big dark-red bar that shows ...

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