Re: DD age histogram

[Filipus Klutiero <chealer@gmail.com>]

Thank you Simon. These numbers surprise me a lot. I thought I was 
getting old :-)

On 2011-07-10 17:11, Simon Paillard wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Sat, Jul 09, 2011 at 10:17:00AM +0200, Christian PERRIER wrote:
> > Quoting Kingsley G. Morse Jr. (kingsley@loaner.com):
> > > I thought you might be interested in the attached
> > > histogram.
> > Do you have this somewhere online? The Debian Publicity team could be
> > interested in adding a reference to it in a further Debian news
> > publication.
> About histogram, some months ago I wondered about the distribution of DD's age,
> and moreover how it evolves in time (is Debian still successful in catching
> interest of *young* contributors ?).
>
> Average DD is 34, 80% of them are between 26 and 42.
>
> Animated gif
> http://people.debian.org/~spaillard/developers-age-histogramm/devs-age-histo.gif
>
> All data:
> http://people.debian.org/~spaillard/developers-age-histogramm/
>
> What it lacks:
> - data before I got interested in that:
>    LDAP doesn't contain the field "Account Creation Date",
>    NM database is not publicly readable, and parsing
>    https://nm.debian.org/nmlist.php would not be reliable: which
>    email used by the applicant ?
> - 3D representation of data, would ease interpretation, or maybe a stacked
>    histogram, with time in x, and age distrib in y.
Yes, or at least avoid the horizontal move in one of the frames. Be able 
to stop the animation? I don't know how to do it though.
> - sometimes valid data, because I guess we don't really have DD<  10.
> - only 598 DD provide their age (one little 1/3)

BTW, when I read the Subject, I thought you would show the "DD age" of 
each DD. I suppose your mention of the lack of Account Creation Date is 
related to that :-(