From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: How many GNU Emacs committers? Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2013 17:57:25 +0300 Message-ID: <83vc3xz7vu.fsf@gnu.org> References: <874nbhwfz2.fsf@thinkpad.tsdh.org> <87zjt9v14r.fsf@thinkpad.tsdh.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1374850656 22517 80.91.229.3 (26 Jul 2013 14:57:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2013 14:57:36 +0000 (UTC) Cc: mhuber@linux-magazin.de, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Tassilo Horn Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jul 26 16:57:36 2013 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 1V2jSZ-00067a-Vs for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 26 Jul 2013 16:57:36 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50177 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V2jSZ-0005Em-Cz for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 26 Jul 2013 10:57:35 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:47662) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V2jSR-00056W-NZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 26 Jul 2013 10:57:32 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V2jSQ-0007hQ-MR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 26 Jul 2013 10:57:27 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout20.012.net.il ([80.179.55.166]:50712) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V2jSQ-0007h7-Eg; Fri, 26 Jul 2013 10:57:26 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout20.012.net.il by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0MQJ00D00TFD3A00@a-mtaout20.012.net.il>; Fri, 26 Jul 2013 17:57:25 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0MQJ00CNPTJOYK20@a-mtaout20.012.net.il>; Fri, 26 Jul 2013 17:57:24 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <87zjt9v14r.fsf@thinkpad.tsdh.org> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.166 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:162139 Archived-At: > From: Tassilo Horn > Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2013 16:36:52 +0200 > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > > Back when emacs used CVS, only the actual committers were logged, > though they probably committed tons of changes others sent them per > mail but couldn't commit themselves. The names of the actual authors of the changes are always stated in the ChangeLog entries, and always have been. So I think the ChangeLog files are a much more accurate source of this kind of information that the VCS logs, including for this reason: > And there are many emacs packages that have their own repositories > (Org, Gnus, ERC, etc.), and not all of them are synched on a > per-commit basis with emacs' repository, so parts of their > contributors are probably not included in the statistics, too.