I was pretty confident I knew that openstack was the fastest growing open source project. They didn't show up in the answers, so maybe the criteria was such that it was cut out?
> openstack$ git count -pm -n3
> 2014-03-01 2608
> 2014-02-01 2545
> 2014-01-01 2173
That looks OpenStack has 7326 commits in the previous 3 months.
> codecombat$ git count -pm -n3
> 2014-03-01 642
> 2014-02-01 426
> 2014-01-01 427
The same tool gives me 1495 commits in the previous 3 months for CodeCombat.
(The tool I used is https://github.com/moskytw/git-count )
If you're interested in numbers[1] shows the commits currently running through the OpenStack CI system at this very moment in time.. I'm counting 125 when I look at the page.
In the last 24 hours, OpenStack's CI system has peaked at just under 1000 jobs ran in an hour, an eyeballed average looks like to be 450 jobs every hour for the last 24 hours.
For build slaves over the same period, It looks like about 750 Jenkins slaves.
Oh and - OpenStack has a strict 1 change == 1 commit policy. So "Fix typo in previous commit" never happens .. The actually reduces the overall number of commits ;)
On a somewhat related note, another interesting thing to note is that we found apparent discrepancies with GitHub's statistics for contributor counts.
For instance, take a look at this PR: https://github.com/codecombat/codecombat/pull/372
It was clearly merged. Now take a look at the two possible usernames GitHub could have used to tally his contribution: QelioX (his GitHub username) and Esh2349, the username he used on the commit. https://github.com/codecombat/codecombat/commits?author=Esh2... https://github.com/codecombat/codecombat/commits?author=Qeli...
I looked, and I couldn't find anything out of place with his profile. Our method for growth through unique contributors actually handles this case. We didn't have time to explore other properties of the GitHub data set which might throw our analysis off, but hopefully someone in the future will produce a nifty analysis which does account for them.