I recently added mailing list analytics to Grokbase in response to Gabor Szabo‘s post on estimating the size of the Perl community. This provides some useful insight into community participation; however, both Gabor and I noticed there are a significant number of automated posts from computer programs and it would be useful to segregate these
Community Analytics via Mailing Lists
Recently Gabor Szabo wrote an article to answer a question he’s often asked, “How many people are in the Perl community?” In his response, he mentions and analyzes a number of proxies including conference participation, commits, open source contributions, mailing list posts, etc. John Napiorkowski agreed with the importance of analyzing this data, “Understanding this
