I assume you're not using Google's GitHub profile as a measure since Google's has fewer repositories than Microsoft's. Where does the 2000 number come from?
2561 members are the ones who made Microsoft org show up on their GitHub profile. By default, GitHub does not list your orgs on your profile. And many people are simply not aware of this, because your profile page looks different to you and others. You don't realize this until you visit your profile from incognito window or something.
No, it's because it's a separate organization on GitHub. The chart is from GitHub's evaluation of contributions to public repos per GitHub organization. (From their GitHub Universe analysis site.) If the contributors to both the Angular and Google organizations don't overlap at all, they "win", but there's probably at least some overlap.
(Of course, if you were to do try to merge the Angular and Google org statistics then you should probably also look at all the other orgs listed at the bottom of microsoft.github.io too. I'd be curious to see someone do the BigQuery work to update this query to account for multiple known official organizations per company.)
Exactly, GitHub claims to have 400M+ repos making this number 0.025% of repos. I'm sure they could get it lower but less than half of 1% is pretty damn good.
As a developer I have to do some due diligence about where I'm getting my data from. If I'm slurping in random repos because the name matches that's a people problem, not a github specific problem.
a few hundred thousand repositories of the 85 million reported Github repositories is really not much, see https://github.com/ten at the bottom for the number.
Huh, the numbers do differ, sometimes by thousands, which doesn't make any sense at all, even if they are using internal metrics.
The reason I was suspicious is that the methodology for determining GitHub stars by year is not trivial, and it is not described in the post, and other comments in this thread questioned it. I removed the OP.
So the google github account was started just a few days ago and is completely empty right now...and yet Githire ranks it as the "Top 1%" by estimated experience.
I'd be really interested to see statistics on this. I don't work in Silicon Valley, and almost all of the stuff people around me are publishing is on GitHub.
When they're giving contributor statistics are they talking about commits? Looking at the commit log and contributors list on github, the vast majority of the code appears to be written by google. It looks like they're counting a user with a single commit equal alongside google developers who work on the code base every other day.
Those are great rankings for the parts of the software development community that use Stack Overflow and GitHub. Here's a hint: those parts of the community are not representative of the community as a whole. Not even close.
To save you a click, this is measured by number of stars on GitHub.
Suffice to say that not every open-source startup even uses GitHub in the first place, and that number of stars is an "interesting" choice to measure startup growth anyway.
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