npmtop

While each individual project may have a core group of committers, are they the same people each time? This conclusion was not clear to me from the article, though the Hacker News title implies it. If that is the case, it goes against my experience with open-source. True, individual projects have core committers who drive the project forward - but the ecosystem that springs up around a project doesn't typically derive entirely from this core subset. NPM is likely the best example with 350,000 packages existing on the platform alone with the distribution of developers to packages being fairly uniform (reference: https://github.com/substack/npmtop/blob/master/README.markdo... - mind that the numbers are from 2011, but even back then it was highly uniform).

One (very arbitrary) metric of TJ's position in the node community: https://github.com/substack/npmtop running it today tells us that he's still number one: rank percent packages author ---- ------- -------- ------ 1 0.60 % 548 tjholowaychuk 2 0.44 % 401 substack 3 0.41 % 379 jongleberry 4 0.40 % 367 dominictarr 5 0.37 % 341 jonschlinkert 6 0.37 % 337 sindresorhus 7 0.36 % 331 juliangruber 8 0.34 % 317 mikolalysenko 9 0.31 % 289 raynos 10 0.28 % 260 mathias 11 0.28 % 257 hughsk 12 0.28 % 255 forbeslindesay 13 0.26 % 239 tootallnate 14 0.23 % 216 clewfirst 15 0.23 % 208 azer