On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 3:01 PM, Josh Susser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> This is pretty cool to see, but I think it's going to be nigh > impossible to get anything like an accurate list. Even since the move > to github, some core members have been doing commits that don't > include attribution to the original author of the patch (hi, David!), > and even when attribution is made, there's no way to give credit to > all the people who contributed to the patch who weren't the author of > the ticket or the git .diff file. I also see a lot of unmatched > duplicates in your list - look at the two spellings of Tobi's name on > lines 17 and 18 in your list and Kevin Clark on lines 33 and 86, for > examples. And I know my name shows up in the changelog several > different ways too, so who knows. Yeah I saw a few of them and put them in the hash. > Anyhoo, I don't know exactly how you plan to use this data, so that > might all be fine for your purposes. But either way I think it's > great to see even a rough number of the people who've done so much for > Rails. Agreed. Indeed my goal is just to be able to have a slide that says ~1400 contributors and do some rough chart. That's in the context of a section of my keynote where I talk about the project. I tried to cope with a few things you could deal with to try to get a figure close enough with some reasonable heuristics, but of course there's no way you can get an accurate listing. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Core" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-core?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
