Most active GitHub users (git.io/top)
The count of contributions (summary of Pull Requests, opened issues and commits) to public repos at GitHub.com from Sat, 04 Oct 2014 19:10:54 GMT till Sun, 04 Oct 2015 19:10:54 GMT.
Only first 1000 GitHub users according to the count of followers are taken. This is because of limitations of GitHub search. Sorting algo in pseudocode:
githubUsers
.filter((user) -> user.followers > 474)