Re: [Inkscape-board] Developer book campaign 2014

On Sun, 2014-11-09 at 23:06 +0100, Johan Engelen wrote: > Hi all, > I'd like to get the developer book campaign done before the holiday > season this year. > > The proposal is in board-docs: > proposals/developer_education_book_campaign_2014.txt > > Differences with last year are: > - *sum* of ohloh.net 12-month rankings for Inkscape *and lib2geom* Practical note, adding lib2geom doesn't change top 10. > - extended book choice: Stackoverflow list of good C++ books Sounds good to me. > We had a bit of a discussion on IRC about this. For simplicity, I think > it'd be good if we keep this a developer education campaign, i.e. C++ > books. And then have another something for the non-coders. We of course > appreciate those efforts too, I just don't know how to "rank" them and > what to give. Fine with me. > Something fun was proposed: add randomization to it. So, we pick 10 out > of the top 25 committers. The picking is done randomly, where your > win-chance is proportional to your commit count (p = your #commits / > total #commits) I would rather just give the top 15 or 20 committers a choice. This is such a cheap campaign for us we may as well go deeper (see list at end). Tav Quick estimate of committer rankings, merging duplicates and lib2geom: Johan Engelen 245 C++ Liam P. White 234 C++ Jabiertxof 218 C++ tavmjong-free 190 C++ su-v 142 C++ JazzyNico 116 C++ Krzysztof Kosiski 97 C++ Martin Owens 82 C++ apenner 62 C++ valavanisalex 50 C++ Kris 39 C++ Markus Engel 31 C++ mathog 25 C++ Sebastian Wst 23 Python Bryce Harrington 23 C++ Jon A. Cruz 22 C++ Diederik van Lierop 15 C++ Tomasz Boczkowski 14 C++ Joshua A. Andler 12 C++ Janis Eisaks 9 theAdib 8 C++ Vincius dos Santos O... 7 C++

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Matthew Petroff 4 C++ Kris De Gussem 3 C++ Yuri Chornoivan 3 insaner 2 C++ Guiu Rocafort 2 C++ ryanlerch 2 Automake