Puppet Community Metrics: February 2013

Puppet Community Metrics: February 2013:
We’re excited to share our monthly Puppet community metrics report from February, packed with all kinds of fascinating tidbits about the Puppet community. Here is a quick summary of the February 2013 edition of the metrics for your reading pleasure, and can also download the full February Puppet metrics report (PDF link) for your monthly dose of data.
February 2013 Metrics Summary

• 5402 members and 1037 messages in Puppet-Users
• 971 members and 149 messages in Puppet-Dev
• 980 nicks on #puppet IRC channel
• 2173 Puppet Forge accounts and 905 modules
• 3972 Redmine accounts
• 496 forks / 1185 watchers of Puppet
• 122 Ask questions, 546 posts, 271 members

Six Month Comparison (September 2012)

• 4575 members and 4524 messages in Puppet-Users
• 847 members and 107 messages in Puppet-Dev
• 839 nicks on #puppet IRC channel
• 1503 Puppet Forge accounts and 465 modules
• 3064 Redmine accounts
• 356 Forks / 932 watchers of Puppet

A few months ago we launched a new Ask Puppet Labs site where you can post your Puppet questions and answer questions from other people. Here is a snapshot of the top participants so far…

Top 5 participants (by number of messages / replies posted) in the Puppet-Users list:

• jcbollinger
• Felix.Frank
• Ken Barber
• Pete
• Andriy Yurchuk

Top 5 participants (by number of messages / replies posted) in the Puppet-Dev list:

• Andy Parker
• Gavin Williams
• sonal
• Ken Barber
• Jeff McCune

You can see the full report for the top 10 participants in the Puppet-users, Puppet-Dev, Puppet-Razor and MCollective mailing lists.
Top 5 participants (by number of lines posted) in the #Puppet IRC channel:

• FriedBob
• lavaman
• _rc
• ken_barber
• binford2k

You can see the list of the top 20 people in the full report.
We are also rocking on pull requests now that Adrien Thebo is working full time on community pull requests. In February, we dipped down below 30 open pull requests, which is the lowest we’ve been in the past year! When I asked Adrien how he was able to achieve this, he said that it had a lot to do with having amazing and helpful community members who were willing to work with him on changes and writing test cases or making other improvements to their code. The platform team here at Puppet Labs has also been really helpful in spending time to answer questions and get him up to speed on the codebase. If you’ve been meaning to submit a pull request for an improvement to Puppet, now is the time!

The full metrics report for January (PDF link) has several other charts that I didn’t talk about here along with other details if you want to see more.
Learn More:

• View more Puppet community metrics
• Ask Puppet Labs Question and Answer site
• Watch the James Turnbull’s “State of the Community” video from PuppetConf
• Join the community in our Google Groups and more, #puppet on IRC, and #puppetize and @PuppetLabs on Twitter.
• Stay up-to-date with the Puppet Labs newsletter