Landscape
What the 1,764 classified repositories are, structurally — shape, ecosystem and language. Every count below describes the same set, so the columns can be compared against each other.
Form
Ecosystem
Language
Activity by month
Everyone on the panel with any recorded contribution that month, and how many of them worked on a repository that 5 or more panel members touched. The gap between the two is the long tail — personal repositories and one-off fixes — which is excluded from the coverage figure on Method, though the watchlist below still lists every classified repository the panel touched.
| Month | Active people | Repos touched | On a qualifying repo |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan | 10,329 | 15,183 | 7,160 |
| Feb | 8,285 | 15,514 | 4,264 |
| Mar | 8,687 | 17,172 | 4,328 |
| Apr | 8,241 | 15,548 | 3,986 |
| May | 8,053 | 16,375 | 3,839 |
| Jun | 7,679 | 16,593 | 3,406 |
| Jul | 7,953 | 18,532 | 3,409 |
These readings come from a rolling panel of 66,704 accounts, all polled across the full window; 20,330 recorded any activity inside it. How this is measured