From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Artur Malabarba Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs author stats Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2015 19:48:10 +0100 Message-ID: References: <83wq12zqd9.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: bruce.connor.am@gmail.com NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1429814919 28475 80.91.229.3 (23 Apr 2015 18:48:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2015 18:48:39 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen , emacs-devel To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Apr 23 20:48:39 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 1YlMAn-0001Cy-Lo for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 23 Apr 2015 20:48:29 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41642 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YlMAm-00045A-Qa for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 23 Apr 2015 14:48:28 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:36199) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YlMAf-00044m-Kn for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Apr 2015 14:48:25 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YlMAb-0003cM-Nz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Apr 2015 14:48:21 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-lb0-x231.google.com ([2a00:1450:4010:c04::231]:33189) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YlMAV-0003a9-WC; Thu, 23 Apr 2015 14:48:12 -0400 Original-Received: by lbbzk7 with SMTP id zk7so20153809lbb.0; Thu, 23 Apr 2015 11:48:10 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:reply-to:sender:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id :subject:from:to:cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=6KFWTLF/lRI/tn4KXAiYlIYCmc0DaES5OUGcr8tL/4M=; b=lizkfpUbwvtizddpm7Ecr/B32ZCTynlHLLygy8nQNm79Z8OoHzZNhEKZIwhQUCZWjt 7g2zGwYE+tXtSKgTQJYnsXREpOQvAMnSi+fAnVWmRRQuiNY2geDG8iY0d/iTp/S3R2X2 713z9jC40iKR2c90E7BA4VWAESxcH9Y2V4qjGMxTUtH1ft0YyFJrh7YZ2twUl5r/cpLm eRV4BF0NI3KC+Jw73A16/O8Y/X/2CoSwcJ4VfUozs8OZC5IGk/RxIqju57JZ72bCQj9N WsEJ649LtdVzZx1Sbzqvj9SEZ9u8KUNN0FYBa/IOU4AqEBSxvVbSH63b88yYGuH4SkXp OPpQ== X-Received: by 10.152.87.204 with SMTP id ba12mr3786100lab.35.1429814890513; Thu, 23 Apr 2015 11:48:10 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.25.150.1 with HTTP; Thu, 23 Apr 2015 11:48:10 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <83wq12zqd9.fsf@gnu.org> X-Google-Sender-Auth: 9jJ-spCEQcSKqJqNm4NscHUWmDU X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2a00:1450:4010:c04::231 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:185833 Archived-At: 2015-04-23 18:49 GMT+01:00 Eli Zaretskii : >> From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen >> Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2015 19:41:03 +0200 >> >> I wondered whether switching to git had any effect, developer wise, so I >> whipped up some stats: >> >> http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no/2015/04/23/the-effect-of-version-control-sys= tems-on-emacs-developers/ > > Thanks. > > This part warrants a comment: > > [...] I would suspect that the numbers before, say, 2007 are > suspect because maintainers would commit patches with themselves as > the =E2=80=9Cauthor=E2=80=9D, I think. > > This suspicion is not true: whoever committed the changes even back > then, always mentioned the actual author. 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?).