From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs author stats Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2015 10:43:00 +0900 Message-ID: <87zj5yqp23.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> References: <83wq12zqd9.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1429839823 26437 80.91.229.3 (24 Apr 2015 01:43:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2015 01:43:43 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Eli Zaretskii , Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen , emacs-devel To: bruce.connor.am@gmail.com Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Apr 24 03:43:34 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 1YlSeS-0005sV-2O for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 24 Apr 2015 03:43:32 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42561 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YlSeR-0004ZQ-8W for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 23 Apr 2015 21:43:31 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:55224) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YlSeE-0004ZK-5X for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Apr 2015 21:43:18 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YlSeD-00071x-AS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Apr 2015 21:43:18 -0400 Original-Received: from shako.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp ([130.158.97.161]:34904) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YlSe8-0006y9-TI; Thu, 23 Apr 2015 21:43:13 -0400 Original-Received: from uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp [130.158.99.156]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by shako.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 130321C391C; Fri, 24 Apr 2015 10:43:01 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: by uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix, from userid 1000) id E15DF120EBE; Fri, 24 Apr 2015 10:43:00 +0900 (JST) In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: VM undefined under 21.5 (beta34) "kale" 83e5c3cd6be6 XEmacs Lucid (x86_64-unknown-linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 130.158.97.161 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:185846 Archived-At: Artur Malabarba writes: > Either way, I think the relevant metric is precisely the number of > *committers*. Commiters are the ones most affected by this change. > Authors who submit patches and bug fixes couldn't care less whether we > use bzr or git (or do I misunderstand something?). Back when "bzr branch" from Savannah sometimes took several hours or didn't finish at all, I'm sure that some potential authors found that plus the request to verify bugs and patch compatibility with trunk HEAD made it worth their while to remain potential. And as Eli says, it's authors that matter to the volume of contributions.