M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
> Note that details about commits predating opening up the
> repository for external commits which happened sometime in
> 2000 IIRC are not necessarily correct.
It's correct from the perspective that the person in question did merge those
changes. But you are correct that authorship is not accurate (e.g. my first
change got merged in June 2002).
> Before opening up the repo, patches were submitted to the repo
> via the team around Guido. This Misc/ACKS file was used in those
> times to give credit.
I'm well aware as someone who quite excited to get their name into Misc/ACKS
back in the day and who has added plenty of other people over the years. ;)
> Also: While the number of changes may be an indicator for
> how active someone is in terms of using the VCS, it's not a good
> indicator of the quality of the work being checked in.
Sorry if I somehow implied that it was as that was never my intent. Consider
the stats more as just providing people a way to spot check that I'm not
missing changes by them.
> On 12.07.2019 21:19, Brett Cannon wrote:
> > Since the thread on potential criteria to be kept on
> > the canonical list
> > of core developers has seemingly stopped and no one explicitly objected
> > to the proposed criteria, I gathered together the proposed list of
> > Python core team members (as well as the people who would be left off an
> > why). Please note that since I am working from the git log on the
> > cpython repository and the developer log the data is best-effort, thus
> > if you have information to add, please let all of us know! Also remember
> > this is for the canonical list, not the active list (I plan to start
> > working on that list after all of this is settled).
> > In the text below, "change" means "committed or authored" in git parlance.
> > Details in the form of e.g. "1990-08-09 to 2019-06-11 (11,210)"
> > represent the date of the person's first change, the date of their last
> > change, and the total number of changes made by that person.
> > I have written this to format appropriate in Markdown, so if you view it
> > on Hyperkitty/Mailman3 then it will render appropriately (the link
> > should be in the email footer Mailman adds).
> > # Proposed people to drop from the historical list of Python core team
> > members
> > Be aware that some people show up on multiple lists justifying removal.
> > I thought it was more informative to keep the people in all lists they
> > are in for a more informed decision.
> > The lists are also not in any particular order. The enumeration is there
> > just to point out the total count.
> > Also note that I preemptively pulled people out of lists where I made a
> > judgmental call that their participation was high enough to not warrant
> > potentially be left out of the core team. Obviously if people disagree
> > then please speak up.
> > And as a reminder, the developer log as to why someone was given
> > privileges (if it was written down) is at
> > https://devguide.python.org/developers/
> > ## People who are in the developer log but have never made a change
> >
> > Santoso Wijaya: 2014-10-29 for Jython
> > Stefan Richthofer: 2014-10-27 for Jython
> > Darjus Loktevic: 2014-07-26 for Jython
> > Chris Angelico: 2014-12-01 for PEP editing
> > Maciej Szulik: 2016-12-23 for bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org...
> > Jeff Allen: 2012-06-13 for Jython
> > Carl Friedrich Bolz: 2011-03-21 for PyPy compatibility
> > Elson Rodriguez: 2011-03-16 for packaging module
> > Kelsey Hightower: 2011-03-16 for packaging module
> > Michael Mulich: 2011-03-16 for packaging module
> > Walker Hale: 2011-03-16 for packaging module
> > Jeff Hardy: 2011-03-14 for IronPython compatibility
> > Maciej Fijalkowski: 2011-03-13 for PyPy compatibility
> > George Boutsioukis: 2010-08-10 for 2to3
> > Paul Kippes: PyCon 2009 for 3to2
> > Ron Duplain: PyCon 2009 for 3to2
> > Allison Randal: 2009 for Parrot compatibility
> > Jim Baker: 2009 for Jython compatibility
> > Gregor Lingl: 2008-06-10 for turtle module
> > Rodrigo Bernardo Pimentel: 2008-04-29 for GSoC
> > Heiko Weinen: 2008-04-29 for GSoC
> > Thomas Lee: 2008-04-21 for AST/optimizer-related branches
> > Jeff Rush: 2008-03-18 for distutils module
> > Chris Monson: 2007-10-20 for editing PEPs
> > Pete Shinners: 2007-03-04 for PEP 3101 in a sandbox
> > Pat Maupin: 2007-02-28 for PEP 3101 work in a sandbox
> > Jackilyn Hoxworth: 2006-05-25 for GSoC
> > Mateusz Rukowicz: 2006-05-30 for GSoC
> > John Benediktsson: 2006-05-17 for Need for Speed sprint
> > Richard Emslie: 2006-05-17 for Need for Speed sprint, relinquished
> > 2008-08-04
> > Runar Petursson: 2006-05-17 for Need for Speed sprint
> > Richard M. Tew: 2006-05-17 for Need for Speed sprint
> > Talin: 2006-04-27 for PEP updates
> > Gregory K. Johnson: 2005-07-08 for GSoC, relinquished 2005-10-16
> > Floris Bruynooghe: 2005-07-08 for GSoC, relinqguished 2005-07-14
> > Eric Price: 2003-05-02 for decimal module, relinquished 2005-04-
