Re: Does Richard M. Stallman still scrutinize and develop the codes of Emacs now?

[Stephen Berman <stephen.berman@gmx.net>]

On Sun, 15 Aug 2021 15:35:37 +0800 Hongyi Zhao <hongyi.zhao@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Aug 15, 2021 at 3:18 PM Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>> [...]
>> The AUTHORS file lists contributions to Emacs since the very
>> beginning, more than 35 years ago.  Any contributions since then till
>> this day are reflected in AUTHORS, and what the contributors do lately
>> doesn't matter at all.  How far back did you go in your study of RMS's
>> contributions?
>
> I got some clues based on some digging into the Emacs git repo, as shown below:
>
> $ git log -1
> commit 3572613550f5d1d0b3392dbc809b32f3989e2981 (HEAD -> master,
> origin/master, origin/HEAD)
> Author: Wolfgang Scherer <wolfgang.scherer@gmx.de>
> Date:   Sun Aug 15 04:02:23 2021 +0300
>
> $ git log | grep -m1 -A1 -B1 -i 'Richard M. Stallman'
> commit dca743f0941909a80e3f28c023977120b6203e20
> Author: Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
> Date:   Sun Mar 22 03:51:55 2015 -0400
>
> The most recent commit by RMS was done in 2015.

'Richard M. Stallman' is too specific:

$ git log | grep -m4 -A1 -B1 -i 'Stallman'
Merge: 67722ab62f 5784b421ee
Author:     Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
AuthorDate: Tue May 11 23:08:42 2021 -0400
Commit:     Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
CommitDate: Tue May 11 23:08:42 2021 -0400
--
commit 67722ab62f9cd0ce81efd628d5a87b8ef350aacc
Author:     Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
AuthorDate: Tue May 11 22:59:12 2021 -0400
Commit:     Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
CommitDate: Tue May 11 22:59:12 2021 -0400

Steve Berman