From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dmitry Gutov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs author stats Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2015 22:59:23 +0300 Message-ID: <55394F1B.5060201@yandex.ru> References: <83wq12zqd9.fsf@gnu.org> <83pp6uzkkc.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1429819190 2605 80.91.229.3 (23 Apr 2015 19:59:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2015 19:59:50 +0000 (UTC) Cc: larsi@gnus.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii , bruce.connor.am@gmail.com Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Apr 23 21:59:49 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YlNHn-0005nr-I7 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 23 Apr 2015 21:59:47 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41854 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YlNHn-0001tj-17 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 23 Apr 2015 15:59:47 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:52784) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YlNHj-0001tO-W9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Apr 2015 15:59:44 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YlNHg-0003U9-QS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Apr 2015 15:59:43 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-wi0-x22d.google.com ([2a00:1450:400c:c05::22d]:35716) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YlNHg-0003Om-FT; Thu, 23 Apr 2015 15:59:40 -0400 Original-Received: by widdi4 with SMTP id di4so228804900wid.0; Thu, 23 Apr 2015 12:59:25 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=sender:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=mrxRHjjOXmU0M1jWFChh++BGlRiyuO1qPj2Im7n4NyE=; b=uYLt8ANWWRdfUYDffqLH787DMUzKX0KUoVDnMNHAtj4vLinB1IWMYqJx3Q5TOuv5A0 dyffOlnld2qT1ir4SIReFpKDTWwe87ci6e9Lhifd8csSIOPsH1mBp285oic5ShLlDOTF gXL3BA+ociy8NZ1fdlDk8P35ULqEoFKgt0oO58nhJ3QtP3yEJSwwHft7CTEsm1cx/c5E TBE5MDI58Lb+qR0nJlis4Wm3hQtbCsUCrfBZSVlzZCyh0+IIxuIa5H0rDK2Oeun32i7m DPfdmLo3n1VN7BH5QRV978fJnerrrI42YIfq8dJfzh0sRX7TpzaE6nBS+0dM+HUL+d9u xJeQ== X-Received: by 10.194.172.130 with SMTP id bc2mr8906623wjc.85.1429819165782; Thu, 23 Apr 2015 12:59:25 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from [192.168.1.2] ([82.102.93.54]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id 14sm13653666wjv.0.2015.04.23.12.59.24 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Thu, 23 Apr 2015 12:59:25 -0700 (PDT) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:36.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/36.0 In-Reply-To: <83pp6uzkkc.fsf@gnu.org> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2a00:1450:400c:c05::22d X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:185840 Archived-At: On 04/23/2015 10:55 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> Either way, I think the relevant metric is precisely the number of >> *committers*. > > Not for us, no. Committers don't write code, they just commit. What > we need is more active developers, i.e. authors. Of course we do, but people who just send patches are much less affected by the choice of the VCS.