[Biopython-dev] biopython on github

[Leighton Pritchard]

On 21/03/2009 14:40, "Giovanni Marco Dall'Olio" <dalloliogm at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Have a look at this video, where it shows that the Ruby On Rails
> project has grown quicker when it has moved to github:
> 
> - http://python.genedrift.org/2009/03/15/ror-commits/
> 
> (the jump should be on minute 5.10 or so)

I've seen this argument a couple of times, now - mostly on blogs - and I'm
not sure that it's all that clear-cut.

The RoR video shows a greater number of individual names associated with
commits, after the move to github.  However, it's not clear whether this is
because a large number of individuals have suddenly decided to contribute to
the project, or whether the move to a version control system in which author
attribution remains with contributed code - as opposed to the bottleneck of
having to be submitted with the id of someone with write access - is
responsible.  I don't think there's enough evidence to say 'the move to
github caused an increase in contributions'.

As a counter-example, the number of people who have recorded contributions
to Biopython code is 46 (from the CONTRIB file on CVS).  I don't think that
there are that many ids associated with committing the codebase on there.
My name's only associated with GenomeDiagram in the commit comments, not as
an author/committer of the code - at least, as far as the CVS application is
concerned - for example.  This might change with git.  Of course, I might be
misunderstanding git's attribution model, or how the stats for that RoR
video were compiled...

L.


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