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News & Views
on 24th August 2009
In Pittsburgh (YAPC::NA) and Lisbon (YAPC::Europe) this year I presented variations of my The Statistics of CPAN talk. Pittsburgh got a 20min talk, while Lisbon got a 5 minute lightning talk. I ran ALOT of numbers passed everyone and got a lot of interesting comments from them. Mark Keating picked up on both the facts of my talk and José's closing keynote when he wrote his blog entry Perl is alive, kicking and stronger than ever!.
The graphs I present in the talk go against all the comments about Perl's decline, as we're seeing more and more code published, and more and more CPAN authors contributing code. Perl is more vibrant now than it ever has been, to the point that every year we see a steady GROWTH in the contributions and authors to CPAN.
Both talk presentations are now available online:
In addition the CPAN Testers Statistics site got an update while I was in Lisbon too, with a new set of pages that were written specifically to continue the observations made in my talks, and provide facts about what many people have been trying to say about the state of Perl and CPAN. You can now these CPAN statistics at the following pages:
If you have any thoughts on the graphs, or suggestions for further statistics to depict the state of CPAN, please let me know.
Comments
Links
The /trends.html, /leadercpan.html and /statscpan.html all seem to end up on the front page, which is a simple list of links.
Posted by Abigail on Monday, 24th August 2009
Which links are you clicking? They're all linking to the correct pages for me.
Posted by Barbie on Monday, 24th August 2009
Re: Links
I clicked on the links "CPAN Trends", "CPAN Leaderboard" and "CPAN Statistics". (http://stats.cpantesters.org/trends.html, http://stats.cpantesters.org/leadercpan.html, and
(http://stats.cpantesters.org/statscpan.html). All the pages give me the same list of links which http://stats.cpantesters.org gives me as well.
Posted by Abigail on Monday, 24th August 2009
Leaderboard
Hi all,
What I feel annoyed about is that my test counts has two parts in Leaderboard. That is, one is "Taro Nishino", the other is "Taro Nishino (TNISHINO)".
I changed my e-mail address for cpan-testers after CPAN::Reporter supported TLS.
I understand that my count is split thereby.
That said, is that all right?
Best regards,
Taro Nishino
Posted by Taro Nishino on Wednesday, 26th August 2009
re: Leaderboard
Unfortunately I do all the mappings of email addresses to people by hand. As such I might occasionally miss entries I've added where I ddn't notice when someone was a CPAN author. I'll fix yours in the next update this week.
If anyone else spots a similar discrepancy, please email me at barbie@cpan.org and let me know. Also anyone who has recently become a CPAN Testers, and I still have just their email address listed, please let me know your name, and any other addresses you use so i can ensure they are all correctly mapped.
Posted by Barbie on Monday, 31st August 2009