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Hans Petter Jansson has done an
analysis of contributions to the GNOME project, raising some concerns
about how well the project is doing at bringing in new developers for the
long haul. “According to this, GNOME peaked at slightly above 1,400
contributors in 2010 and went into decline with the GNOME 3.0 release the
following year. However, 2020 saw the most contributors in a long time,
even with preliminary data — there’s still two weeks to go. Who knows if
it’s an anomaly or not. It’s been an atypical year across the
board.”