who wrote the manual?

[Andy Wingo <wingo@pobox.com>]

Hi,

I was looking at the manual preface, and it says, quote:

    The Guile reference and tutorial manuals were written and edited
    largely by Mark Galassi and Jim Blandy.  In particular, Jim wrote
    the original tutorial on Guile's data representation and the C API
    for accessing Guile objects.

But that sounds old. I cloned git://git.lwn.net/gitdm.git, and now we
see that:

    ~/src/guile$ git log -p -M doc | ../gitdm/gitdm -c /dev/null
    Grabbing changesets...done       
    Processed 1515 csets from 26 developers
    33 employers found
    A total of 214004 lines added, 117077 removed (delta 96927)

    [...]

    Developers with the most changed lines
    Neil Jerram               100687 (36.2%)
    Marius Vollmer            38745 (13.9%)
    Martin Grabmüller        16468 (5.9%)
    Andy Wingo                13156 (4.7%)
    Thien-Thi Nguyen          11676 (4.2%)
    Kevin Ryde                10417 (3.7%)
    Jim Blandy                8589 (3.1%)
    Ludovic Courtes           7979 (2.9%)
    Ludovic Courtès          4252 (1.5%)
    Julian Graham             3129 (1.1%)
    Rob Browning              2363 (0.8%)
    Mikael Djurfeldt          1790 (0.6%)
    Gary Houston              1605 (0.6%)
    Michael Gran              1368 (0.5%)
    Han-Wen Nienhuys          1221 (0.4%)
    Brian Gough               1024 (0.4%)
    Keisuke Nishida            603 (0.2%)
    Andreas Rottmann           342 (0.1%)
    Dirk Herrmann              247 (0.1%)
    Ken Raeburn                 50 (0.0%)
    No Itisnt                   42 (0.0%)
    Stefan Jahn                 27 (0.0%)
    Daniel Kraft                17 (0.0%)
    Greg J. Badros              10 (0.0%)
    Jose A. Ortega Ruiz          8 (0.0%)
    Michael Livshin              4 (0.0%)

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?

But where is Mark Galassi in all of that, I wonder...

Andy
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