miniblog.

Quantifying Gnome contributions by frequency, tenure, and affiliated companies: https://hpjansson.org/blag/2020/12/16/on-the-graying-of-gnome/ Whilst the methodology can't be perfect, it's a nice way of measuring contribution trends.

"Instead of a community of active contributors, open source often looks more like a few developers playing air traffic controller to thousands of users who are lightly involved." https://increment.com/open-source/the-rise-of-few-maintainer-projects/ Fabulous post on how software contribution dynamics have changed.

Whilst I've seen many teams use monorepos successfully, it assumes that there's a common contribution process for everyone. A PL community needs to have different projects with different processes, and that requires packaging tooling. I wonder what the size upper bound is.