From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Neil Jerram Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: who wrote the manual? Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2010 22:30:24 +0100 Message-ID: <87tykspgcv.fsf@ossau.uklinux.net> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1286832687 6203 80.91.229.12 (11 Oct 2010 21:31:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2010 21:31:27 +0000 (UTC) Cc: guile-devel To: Andy Wingo Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Oct 11 23:31:26 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1P5Pxt-0000Y4-RK for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 11 Oct 2010 23:31:26 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:60143 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1P5Pxt-0000Df-0n for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 11 Oct 2010 17:31:25 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=33342 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1P5Pxb-00009S-IO for guile-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 11 Oct 2010 17:31:11 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1P5Pxa-0008Gr-AL for guile-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 11 Oct 2010 17:31:07 -0400 Original-Received: from mail3.uklinux.net ([80.84.72.33]:36160) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1P5Pxa-0008Cx-60 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 11 Oct 2010 17:31:06 -0400 Original-Received: from arudy (unknown [78.149.119.168]) by mail3.uklinux.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id C818A1F686C; Mon, 11 Oct 2010 22:30:26 +0100 (BST) Original-Received: from neil-laptop (unknown [192.168.1.8]) by arudy (Postfix) with ESMTP id 802823800B; Mon, 11 Oct 2010 22:30:25 +0100 (BST) In-Reply-To: (Andy Wingo's message of "Mon, 11 Oct 2010 21:39:55 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4-2.6 X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:11027 Archived-At: Andy Wingo writes: > Developers with the most changed lines > Neil Jerram 100687 (36.2%) Quick, publish now before that changes! :-) > Assuming that changed lines is the real measure of committing to the > manual, we can fairly say that Neil wrote the manual, with important > contributions from Marius on down. If we place the cutoff at 1% (and > that's totally arbitrary), we can mention 8 more names, which is plenty > for a preface, no? Seriously, this is a hard question. Although Marius and I have written a lot of new material, I'd say that our percentages are over-represented because of the amount of large scale reorganization that we've done. (I believe that if you just move 100 lines from A to B, Git will count that as 100 additions and 100 deletions.) Also supporting that, there was a great deal of manual already in existence when I first started contributing to it (around 1998). That then means that the top contributions are not as dominant as they first look, and so maybe it's less fair to exclude people below some arbitrary cutoff. In any case, perhaps we could list all of those names in an Acknowledgements section, even if we decide to have a limited subset upfront. > But where is Mark Galassi in all of that, I wonder... I'm afraid I don't know. Although I'm familiar with his name, I believe his main involvement was before my time. I've internalised the text you quoted about Mark writing the manual originally, and surely there must be some substance to it - but I don't have more detail than that. But I have a feeling (somehow) that Mark still follows the list occasionally - so hopefully he may respond himself. Regards, Neil