The freshness of a collection is often expressed in quartiles of age answering the questions: 25/50/75 percent of the CPAN are younger than X. So what are the figures for the CPAN? It's truely amazing: a quarter of the modules on CPAN has been uploaded within the last 3.8 months. Half of CPAN is younger than 17 months, and three quarters of CPAN have an age below 45 months.
I made up a google chart (with the help of Google::Chart).
Re:There is expotential growth of Open Source
mr_bean on 2008-05-09T04:38:53
Interesting that CPAN is not unique there.
Riehle in that article says:
On SourceForge, the dominant open source project hosting service, there are more than 150,000 projects registered, most of which are considered inactive. Daffara estimates that as of today there are only about 18,000 active open source projects in the world.
My question is, Is that inactivity due to some special situation at SourceForge, or is there explosive growth in a small number of new projects there? Is SourceForge different?
