On 4/21/23 23:38, Ben Cotton wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 21, 2023 at 4:05 PM Maxwell G <maxw...@gtmx.me> wrote:
>>
>> What evidence shows that the group is ever shrinking? I often see Self
>> Introduction posts and new people interacting with project. I suppose
>> that whether they continue interacting afterwards is another question.
>
> I'm glad you asked. Earlier this week I decided to avoid doing other
> work by putting together some quick charts of devel list
> participation. Here's the number of unique participants per month from
> 2004–2022:
> https://bcotton.fedorapeople.org/images/devel-participation-monthly.png
>
> And for a less-noisy version, the median of the monthly numbers per year:
> https://bcotton.fedorapeople.org/images/devel-participation-mean.png
>
> There are a lot of questions left unanswered by this quick analysis,
> but there's a clear trend in fewer participants over time. In fact,
> last month had the second smallest participant count (tied with
> October 2022). Of course, these charts don't show _why_, but they do
> support the assertion that folks are dropping out of the conversation
> faster than others are joining.
>
Ben,
Thanks, this is helpful. Can you make the scripts/programs you used for
these available to allow for a more detailed analysis?
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