Some hard numbers about contributions to Magit

Some hard numbers about contributions to Magit

[Jonas Bernoulli]

Hello,

Some more hard numbers, this time about who has contributed how much to
Magit:

  https://magit.vc/stats/authors.html

This was generated using `gitstats' (http://gitstats.sourceforge.net).

If you are only interested in how many commits each contributor made,
but not how many lines s/he added/removed, then you can also use:

  git shortlog -n -s -e

  Cheers,
  Jonas

Re: Some hard numbers about contributions to Magit

[Richard Stallman]

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  > https://magit.vc/stats/authors.html

I will take a look at that page.  Thanks.

  > If you are only interested in how many commits each contributor made,
  > but not how many lines s/he added/removed, then you can also use:

What matters for the purpose of legal papers is the amount of code,
rather than the number of commits.


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Re: Some hard numbers about contributions to Magit

[Filipe Silva]

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Richard, How does that work exactly? if there's less than 15 lines per
commit is it all fine? Or do you have to actually sum up all the lines of
all commits done by the author to verify if he wrote a non trivial part of
the program and thus the legal paperwork procedure should be triggered?

On Jul 10, 2017 20:33, "Richard Stallman" <rms@gnu.org> wrote:

> [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider    ]]]
> [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies,     ]]]
> [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]]
>
>   > https://magit.vc/stats/authors.html
>
> I will take a look at that page.  Thanks.
>
>   > If you are only interested in how many commits each contributor made,
>   > but not how many lines s/he added/removed, then you can also use:
>
> What matters for the purpose of legal papers is the amount of code,
> rather than the number of commits.
>
>
> --
> Dr Richard Stallman
> President, Free Software Foundation (gnu.org, fsf.org)
> Internet Hall-of-Famer (internethalloffame.org)
> Skype: No way! See stallman.org/skype.html.
>
>
>

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Re: Some hard numbers about contributions to Magit

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Filipe Silva <filipe.silva@gmail.com>
> Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2017 15:25:15 -0300
> Cc: Jonas Bernoulli <jonas@bernoul.li>, Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
> 
> Richard, How does that work exactly? if there's less than 15 lines per commit is it all fine? Or do you have to
> actually sum up all the lines of all commits done by the author to verify if he wrote a non trivial part of the
> program and thus the legal paperwork procedure should be triggered?

The latter: we can accept contributions from someone until the sum of
them amounts to about 15 lines.

Re: Some hard numbers about contributions to Magit

[Stefan Monnier]

> The latter: we can accept contributions from someone until the sum of
> them amounts to about 15 lines.

Actually, it's only the lines that remain in the end result
that matter.  Usually it's pretty much the same as the sum of the lines
of all commits, but sometimes it's less because some of that code was
later removed/replaced.


        Stefan

Re: Some hard numbers about contributions to Magit

[Andreas Röhler]

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On 14.07.2017 04:45, Stefan Monnier wrote:
>> The latter: we can accept contributions from someone until the sum of
>> them amounts to about 15 lines.
> Actually, it's only the lines that remain in the end result
> that matter.  Usually it's pretty much the same as the sum of the lines
> of all commits, but sometimes it's less because some of that code was
> later removed/replaced.
>
>
>          Stefan
>
>

Gladly formulas like E = mc² cover just one line.

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Re: Some hard numbers about contributions to Magit

[Mathias Dahl]

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>
> Actually, it's only the lines that remain in the end result
> that matter.  Usually it's pretty much the same as the sum of the lines
> of all commits, but sometimes it's less because some of that code was
> later removed/replaced.
>

For those who have not had a look at the source of this is yet, here it is:

https://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain/maintain.html#Legally-Significant

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