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 ......?

-- 
Gérard


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