Andrew G. Malis <agmalis@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> So an alternate stat may be the number of unique people who upload to
>> the Datatracker. So that would require, for each RFC published,
>> getting the list of people who uploaded. That would be a lower bound
>> on number active authors. The numbers Jari has would be the upper
>> bound.
> That would include Internet Draft authors as well as RFC authors, but I
> think that's a better metric of how many active authors we have in a
> given year.
Well, the complexity is that one has to get the list of RFCs, then the list
of uploads for each RFC.
> Except now we have authoring happening on GitHub as well, which is more
> difficult to track. For example, how many active authors do we have in
> the QUIC WG? Tough to say without looking at their GitHub document
> update history.
Thus a reason why I'd like to have the list of contributors/acknowledgements
in a structured format in the document :-)
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Michael Richardson <mcr+IETF@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, Sandelman Software Works
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