From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
Cc: 44702@debbugs.gnu.org, tom@tromey.com
Subject: bug#44702: [PATCH] ; * lisp/emacs-lisp/package.el: Fix Author line.
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2020 18:55:26 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83pn4brkht.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADwFkmmsTw-GemmMqfGrzaJ7Y1UQkNCcnd2unvRPbFVT-BfuRw@mail.gmail.com> (message from Stefan Kangas on Tue, 17 Nov 2020 04:30:45 -0800)
> From: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
> Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2020 04:30:45 -0800
> Cc: tom@tromey.com
>
> I think the "Author" header line in package.el does not accurately
> reflect the contributions to that file. In particular, I think Tom
> Tromey should be listed as the sole author of package.el, in line with
> our practices and to recognize his contribution.
>
> Please see the attached patch and compare it the output of the following
> command:
>
> $ git shortlog -sn -- lisp/emacs-lisp/package.el | cat -n
>
> 1 132 Artur Malabarba
> 2 54 Glenn Morris
> 3 52 Stefan Monnier
> 4 46 Chong Yidong
> 5 40 Paul Eggert
> 6 23 Stefan Kangas
> 7 16 Dmitry Gutov
> 8 11 Lars Ingebrigtsen
> 9 8 Daiki Ueno
> 10 8 Juanma Barranquero
> 11 7 Eli Zaretskii
> 12 7 Sam Steingold
> 13 5 Noam Postavsky
> 14 5 Ted Zlatanov
> 15 4 John Wiegley
> 16 4 Pieter van Oostrum
> 17 3 Basil L. Contovounesios
> 18 3 Bastien Guerry
> 19 3 Nicolas Richard
> 20 3 Phil Hagelberg
> 21 3 Thien-Thi Nguyen
> 22 3 Thierry Volpiatto
> 23 3 Thomas Fitzsimmons
> 24 2 Chunyang Xu
> 25 2 Daniel Hackney
>
> Any objections?
The number of commits doesn't necessarily tell how significant was the
contribution; you need to count the number of added/changed lines
instead. As an extreme example, the original author who write a
package from scratch and installed it in a single commit will be at
the tail of your list, but that doesn't express correctly the
contribution of that person.
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-11-17 12:30 bug#44702: [PATCH] ; * lisp/emacs-lisp/package.el: Fix Author line Stefan Kangas
2020-11-17 16:29 ` Glenn Morris
2020-11-17 16:55 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-11-17 16:55 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
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