On Thu 5 July 2007 02:47, John Denker wrote: > On 07/04/2007 02:57 PM, Melchior FRANZ wrote: > > There are 20 other people with commit permissions. > > That may be narrowly true as written, but it is misleading. > > Here are some observations concerning the 1000 most recent > commits to the "data" tree: > ... 100.0 percentile > 503 mfranz > ... 49.7 percentile > 167 vmmeazza > ... 33.0 percentile > 131 sydadams > ... 19.9 percentile > 102 martin > ... 9.7 percentile > 45 curt > ... 5.2 percentile > 14 durk > ... 3.8 percentile > 11 frohlich > ... 2.7 percentile > 9 helijah > ... 1.8 percentile > 8 ehofman > ... 1.0 percentile > 6 andy > ... 0.4 percentile > 2 fredb > ... 0.2 percentile > 2 dfaber > > We see that one person is responsible for over half the > commits, and 4 persons are responsible for more than 90% > of the commits. > > ======================= > > The corresponding observations for the "source" tree are: > ... 100.0 percentile > 545 mfranz > ... 45.5 percentile > 119 frohlich > ... 33.6 percentile > 92 fredb > ... 24.4 percentile > 90 curt > ... 15.4 percentile > 56 ehofman > ... 9.8 percentile > 40 durk > ... 5.8 percentile > 40 andy > ... 1.8 percentile > 14 daveluff > ... 0.4 percentile > 4 david > > We see that, again, one person is responsible for more than > half the commits. Five persons are responsible for more than > 90% of the commits. The whole list is only 9 persons long. > > ========================= > > The way I look at it, in effect it's not 20 other people who > could evaluate a given submission, in effect it's three or four > other people. And some of them are too busy with their own > work to bother with contributions from the hoi polloi. > And the target of that study is ......?
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