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Here is an update on the work. I want to make sure we don’t read too much into it.
Earlier I used Foundry’s average share since 2021 (~24%) for the 7+ streak propensity calculation, which made the streaks look dramatically high.
That was the wrong baseline because Foundry was still ramping up through early 2022. The 'correct' window starts in November 2022, when its share was already established.
Using that period, Foundry’s 7+ streak propensity is only about 1.19× expected — roughly 20% above the fair baseline and within normal variance.
The dashboard has been updated to reflect this more reasonable number
agree on v2, and your thought process there.
To your question: no, the dashboard only records the winner of each block. It doesn't see the 'stale' blocks that were found but lost the race.
However, if a pool is consistently winning those 'split-tip' races, it confirms the suspicion: those 7-block streaks aren't just a statistical events, They are a result of structural edges.
One way to interpret this: while we attribute ~32% hashrate to Foundry, their effective hashrate, when they want it to be, is actually higher because of these 'other' technical edges
thanks. feedback welcome as you explore
i’ve been debating whether to expand the pool profile/behavior section. would be great if it actually helps miners decide where to mine!
- Consolidated Boris Nagaev, Rijndael (rot13maxi), and Adam Gibson (waxwing/AdamISZ) under canonical names.
- Removed 'admin' from the developer network.
- Switched to a log-damping heuristic ($1 + \log_2(n)$) to avoid biasing the map with raw volume counts. This is a judicious manual choice for now; still exploring more data-driven ways to model this. let me know if you have thoughts.
I used BIP data to categorize messages and thread headers. Will show more data on orange-dev-tracker. If you have ideas on what kind of BIP analysis we should do, let me know
this part is fixed.
I'll refine the impact profile to make it more explanatory, in case it's confusing
I'll take this 'concern' as worth exploring.
methodology: compare pre/post commit activity (count and consistency) to see if there's any correlation with the drama. I'll use May 2025 as one cutoff date to start, and we can repeat this for other key moments or drill down into specific developers/maintainers
Issue: 2024 Tests Not Showing
Root cause: My categorisation logic had a priority flaw. I defined:
Wallet category rule: src/wallet/
Tests/QA category rule: src/test/, test/, or src/bench/
Conflict: Files in src/wallet/test/ matched both patterns. The wallet rule took precedence, so test files were incorrectly categorized as wallet code rather than tests/QA.
Fix: Adjusting logic to catch component-level test directories (e.g., src/[component]/test/) before falling back to component categorisation.
On Maintainer Tracking
Fixed the 'relay race' chart using:
Static file source: Your Stack Exchange maintainer list
Merge commits to identify maintainer activity
Verification: Cross-checking against the trusted-keys file to confirm maintainer identities
Thanks for pointing out the discrepancy. I'd appreciate it if you could flag any other data points that don't look right and need fixing
Thanks for jumping in. Curious to know what do you see in the chart.
Also,
1: You’ve been in the trenches, so love to get your thoughts on: what numbers or views would actually help you day-to-day?
2: Any buckets or labels feel off? Happy to re-cut the data so it maps to how contributors really think about the code
If this turns out useful, will love to make it some sort of engineering analytics or developer health dashboard.
Thanks for pointing that out. In the new report I do pull everything, but I treat merge commits separately—check the Total/Author toggle in the Contributor Galaxy charts.
https://sorukumar.github.io/orange-dev-tracker/contributors.html
Any numbers look off to you?
Appreciate you taking the time to comment
Here is POV from a Hindu guy:
Children and religion
I would lean towards saying nothing.
My experience: As a single man, I rarely visited temples or observed religious holidays. However, as a father, I make it a point to take my children to the temple and maintain religious practices at home. The two part reason is
1: I seriously believe in the absence of religion you may get influenced by bad ideas ( one example, decline of religion resulted into the rise of wokeness)
2: to me, essentially a philosophy. As a child, I loved reading parables, fables, and Zen stories, and I still find them incredibly enriching
Interestingly, as a teenager, when I got intoxicated with the idea that we may have created god as a psychological defense mechanism (Fear-Origin Theory). My mom said, it does not matter. God does not ask you to believe in Him. what you are is Nirguna ( one who believe in formless God ). did not find a good link with quick search, so here is a gemini summary[https://gemini.google.com/share/03172ec12ac9]. So, I was never an atheist.
Religion feels like a scam:
Feeling disillusioned, hold your horses. it will pass. . ZEN Short Story: It Will Pass!
What to do next
If you don't feel like it. don’t force it. You don’t need to go to church or pray as often as you currently do .It is also okay if kids also don't go to church as often as they go now. Instead of formal worship, consider reading. I ended up reading a couple of pages of Ecclesiastes [https://www.biblestudytools.com/nkjv/ecclesiastes/1.html} once, and i found it incredibly profound...so there is a lot of learned from there.
Remember, as the zen master, buddha says, it will pass, and you won' t feel and think like what you are doing now!
By the way, many Hindu story emphasize that God's fav are those who are "good human beings" and fulfill their worldly responsibilities with integrity, rather than those who only pray. central theme of "Vaishnav Jan To," Mahatma Gandhi’s favorite bhajan. I love it too. it has subtitle [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbvww26oMQ4]