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Re:Open Source is one person by mathisd on Thursday August 28, 2025 @05:38PM (#45057331)
The visualisations could be improved by binning number of maintainer 1 / 2-10 / 11-n or by plotting cumulative distribution (ie. x% of projects have less than y contributors)
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Re:Open Source is one person by tracker1 on Thursday August 28, 2025 @06:52PM (#45057932)
Even that would be mis-representative... I know of many packages with contributions from hundreds of people, but the bulk of the work was still 1 or 2 primary maintainers based on commits.
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