@ecosystems is there a definition somewhere for the terms you use? 1.9 million maintainers it says. What exactly is a maintainer according to ecosyste.ms?
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@bagder @ecosystems maintainers are the accounts listed on package manager registries that have publish access, it’s not the best word for it but that’s the name of the table in packages.ecosyste.ms
@bagder @ecosystems the maintainers for our packages are very outdated
*Edit:* nevermind its like that on pypi
@bagder @ecosystems at first I thought they meant unique committers, but they state 287m repos, 1.9m maintainers, that's 0.0066 maintainers per repo, something like 130 repos per maintainer on average? so maybe it's uniquely counting the author of the initial commit per repo as a maintainer or something.
@linus @ecosystems right, the numbers are curious and hard to figure out without a proper explanation