Hi Igor. Others are better qualified to answer, but for github - I think most projects that migrate there from other platforms obtain more contribution due to the basic popularity of github, and visibility.
On Wednesday, June 8, 2016 at 6:03:23 AM UTC+10, Igor Steinmacher wrote: > > > Hi there, > > I'm a researcher studying software evolution. As part of my current > research, I'm studying the implications of open-sourcing a proprietary > software, for instance, if the project succeed in attracting newcomers. > Jenkins was in my list. > > To further analyze the impacts of Jenkins migration, we analyzed the git > log commit history of your project in terms of number of contributions, > number of newcomers, and number of contributors per month. The following > figure presents a temporal perspective regarding these three measures. > > > > Given the numbers presented in the graphic, we would like to ask Jenkins > developers the following questions: > > 1. What motivated the project to migrate to Github? How do you evaluate > the benefits of this migration?2. Does this snapshot make sense? Did you > find any inconsistency on the data? > 3. Do you have any internal policy to promote/attract/retain newcomers? If > so, do them succeed? > 4. Why did the number of contributors increased after its migration to > GitHub? Was it expected? > > Thanks in advance for your collaboration, > > Igor Steinmacher, PhD > http://www.igor.pro.br <http://www.gustavopinto.org/> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Jenkins Developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to jenkinsci-dev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-dev/93ba79f4-30e2-4147-a3bc-c5663ea16720%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
