Salta al contenuto principale


The European Union surpassed the United States as the first source of pushes to public Git repositories on GitHub, and that doesn't count the alternatives like Gitlab and Codeberg where I assume there's an even larger fraction of European contributions.

innovationgraph.github.com/glo…

#OpenSource #OSS #FOSS

Questa voce è stata modificata (1 giorno fa)

reshared this

in reply to UnitedWeStand🇪🇺🌻🫂

@johkra Any other explanation than the governement’s promotion of Gitee? It is backed by the Chinese government and offers faster access within China.
in reply to Frédéric Jacobs

@johkra also VPNs. See jeffgortmaker.com/files/Open_S… for AFIAK the best study so far.

On counting other forges, I suspect some back of the napkin guesstimates could be derived from archive.softwareheritage.org/ (make assumptions of pushes and geo distribution for others listed on that page) and better than napkin estimates by looking at the actual commit data in @swheritage (I'd love to see it).

in reply to mlinksva

@mlinksva Interesting approach by Gortmaker to use holidays as indicator of work jurisdiction!

«For each, I calculate the activity count, the share completed in each hour of the day, the share done on federal holidays for various countries, the share on
repositories owned by self-reported residents of each country, and the confidence-weighted share of text content in each of the 176 languages identified by FastText (Joulin et al., 2016),»

in reply to Frédéric Jacobs

Time to cut it off from Microsoft again. Something that should never have happened.
in reply to Elena Rossini ⁂

@_elena Wait until Ukraine and Canada join 😀 and our British friends accept to rejoin and abandon their “a-la-carte” approach to the EU
in reply to Frédéric Jacobs

@Frédéric Jacobs

I read an interesting article a couple of days ago saying the problem is not that big with applications but with infrastructure.

From submarine cables up to clouds we rely on USA technology and they could stop Europe with a click even if we were completely independent at the application level.

in reply to Frédéric Jacobs

Would cost of living / quality of life be a factor here ?
Questa voce è stata modificata (23 ore fa)
in reply to Frédéric Jacobs

sadly it's to storage controlled by unreliable allied, should move away from GitHub IMHO.
in reply to Frédéric Jacobs

Interesting milestone: The EU has overtaken the US as the primary source of pushes to public GitHub repositories. The original post also notes this doesn't include EU-heavy platforms like GitLab and Codeberg, suggesting the European share of open-source contributions is even larger.
in reply to Frédéric Jacobs

I find it hard to trust any data when it comes to either commit count or LoC committed since the popularity rise of agents.