Github Development

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Recently the 2022 Electric Capital Developer Report came out, and its finding are quite optimistic. At the ending of 2022, there were 23k monthly active developers, with an all-time high of 61k developers contributing to web3 for the first time.

And Near is right there as one of the major growing ecosystems.

Thanks to Flipside, is possible to see this growing activity more closely.

One caveat though, is that Flipside’s approach doesn’t capture activity by commits or lines added. Instead prioritizes collaborative development, one in which Issues or PR are opened, discussed and review in conjunction with multiple developers.

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Method

• Active developers during 2022 were accounted for developers that appear at least once during the year.

• Developers by type were accounted as:

  • 1 Issue/PR = One-Time Dev (during a month)
  • 2-9 Issues/PRs = Part-Time Dev
  • More than 9 Isseus/PRs = Full-Time Dev

• Developers retention rate was searched using a cohort method calculating the percentage of Developers onboarded on a week that lasted until x months ahead (Amount of months by year)

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• All the data was provided by Flipside’s database and their new Near.GitHub_Activity table.

Development Growth

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• Monthly active developers had been increasing through Near lifespan, peaking at 2154 active developers on June 2022, closing with 1298 active ones.

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• During 2022, Near saw a 78% growth in developers. Onboarding 662 new devs.

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• At the last recorded activity on December 28, there were 340 organizations recorded in the Near GitHub development.

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• Around half of active developers by month are Full-Time devs.

  • While both Part-Time developers and One-Time ones saw an increase in mid 2022, with a decline towards the end of the year.
  • Full-Time Developers did not see that decline.

• Developers retention rate is high. Reaching up to 40% for those developers that started on the second month of development until the end of 2022. Though, of those who started on 2021 between a 20% to 30% did remain active on 2022.

  • The monthly retention rate finished at almost 50%.

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• All this increase in development activity while Near price fell up to -91% between the start and the end of the year.

  
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Developers on 2022

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• By the end of 2022, full time developers composed the 89% of the total developers.

• 8% were part time developers and 2.5% were one-time dev candidates.

• The average amount of PR/Issues have decline in time, from a All-Time high of 10 issues per dev on 2020 to rangin from 5 to 3 in 2022.

• The weekly development heatmap has seen a notoriously increase in activity, on which Mondays are, as expected, increasing.

  But, also Tuesdays and Fridays are reaching high activity levels.

Final Points

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• Near increased development activity through a full bear market.

• Also managed to end its year with a possitive year over year growth. In developers onboarding as organizations being worked. With 131 new organizations and 622 new developers.

• Retention rates for developers also look quite positive, even for those that started years ago.

• Near is on route for achieving its 2023 goals.

Organizations on Near

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• Near is by far the one receiving most of the activity from 1333 devs.

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• Aurora following at the second with 424 devs.

• Most of the organizations in Near are collaboratively worked by 5 or less developers.

• Most of the Pull request, issues and Merges are made by developers as collaborators.