From: Tassilo Horn <tsdh@gnu.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: mhuber@linux-magazin.de, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How many GNU Emacs committers?
Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2013 17:18:29 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87vc3xuz7e.fsf@thinkpad.tsdh.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83vc3xz7vu.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Fri, 26 Jul 2013 17:57:25 +0300")
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> 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.
Yes, sure. But those are not analyzed by ohloh.net.
> 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.
Indeed, so here's a try:
$ cat **/ChangeLog* | grep '^[0-9]' | cut -d" " -f1 --complement \
| sed -e 's/(.*)//' |sed -e 's/<.*>//' | sed -e 's/^[ ]\+//' \
| sed -e 's/[ ]\+$//' | sort | uniq | wc -l
1736
There are some duplicates when people sometimes use, e.g., "Richard
Stallman" and sometimes "Richard M. Stallman", and people with the same
name count only once, but matching only for names seemed to be more
correct than email addresses where sometimes people have used a good
dozen over the years.
Bye,
Tassilo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-07-26 15:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-07-26 13:55 How many GNU Emacs committers? Mathias Huber
2013-07-26 14:21 ` Juanma Barranquero
2013-07-26 14:28 ` Bastien
2013-07-26 15:46 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-07-26 14:30 ` Tassilo Horn
2013-07-26 14:36 ` Tassilo Horn
2013-07-26 14:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-07-26 15:18 ` Tassilo Horn [this message]
2013-07-26 15:21 ` Mathias Huber
2013-07-26 15:50 ` Glenn Morris
2013-07-26 16:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-07-26 16:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-07-26 16:52 ` Tassilo Horn
2013-07-26 16:59 ` Glenn Morris
2013-07-26 17:18 ` Tassilo Horn
2013-07-26 17:21 ` Glenn Morris
2013-07-27 8:39 ` Tassilo Horn
2013-07-26 18:50 ` Jambunathan K
2013-08-01 11:02 ` Mathias Huber
2013-08-02 1:59 ` Xue Fuqiao
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