Data on the number of releases comes from ecosyste.ms which was very convenient to do this while comparing with other packages outside PyPI. For what it’s worth, Rails is at 510 on there, which I believe is all releases since 2004. And Laravel is at 247 but there’s 2-3 years missing
it’s my 1st attempt at reporting on CI downloads specifically. Interpreting this is more of an art than a science, I’d love to hear if others have ideas on what to do with this data!
for me the surprise is the pace? I’d expect people to be more set in their tools that it takes longer than a few months for a new tool, no matter how good, to become the majority use one. Though perhaps people adopt new tools more easily in CI where install times matter more