New accounts
Always nice to start with graphics ;-). So this grapic shows the amount of new accounts the sysadmin crew made, devided in blocks of 3 months, starting from januari 1999. That means, we are now exactly 10 years creating accounts.
This year we created 301 accounts, in 2007 we created 261. That means, we are creating almost 6 accounts each and every week. People say that getting a svn account for KDE is easy, well that’s not true. It’s fast yes, requests are usually dealth with within 24h, but you need to have a good reason.
You can also think about the consequences within KDE, I admit it’s not my quote, but you can wonder how it is possible that we welcome a new KDE developers almost every day without losing control and identity. Imagen a company which hires a new employee every day. The company is doomed to change and it will be a big problem integrating all those new employees within the rest of the people on the workfloor.
In that regard we are doing a great job. Maybe we can think about a more personal guidance in the first dozen commits the new contributor makes, but that’s food for a later blog.
I also would love to see some stats about how many of the new contributors stick around for longer and if the percentage has declined or improved the last years….
