On Fri, Apr 21, 2023 at 4:05 PM Maxwell G <maxwell@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > What evidence shows that the group is ever shrinking? I often see Self > Introduction posts and new people interacting with project. I suppose > that whether they continue interacting afterwards is another question. I'm glad you asked. Earlier this week I decided to avoid doing other work by putting together some quick charts of devel list participation. Here's the number of unique participants per month from 2004–2022: https://bcotton.fedorapeople.org/images/devel-participation-monthly.png And for a less-noisy version, the median of the monthly numbers per year: https://bcotton.fedorapeople.org/images/devel-participation-mean.png There are a lot of questions left unanswered by this quick analysis, but there's a clear trend in fewer participants over time. In fact, last month had the second smallest participant count (tied with October 2022). Of course, these charts don't show _why_, but they do support the assertion that folks are dropping out of the conversation faster than others are joining. -- Ben Cotton He / Him / His Fedora Program Manager Red Hat TZ=America/Indiana/Indianapolis _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
