Hi. Thanks to this GCI task (http://www.google-melange.com/gci/task/view/google/gci2011/7242260), we now have an updated .mailmap file and the AUTHORS/aboutus have also been updated. Several people were found to missing from those files and were added.
If anyone has committed with more than one email address or name spelling, please check the .mailmap file to verify that we are using your preferred address/spelling. Or if you see any incorrect entries or missing people, please let me know. The good news here is that we can now exactly determine how many authors SymPy has. As of now, we have 169 people listed in the AUTHORS file and 165 people from the git history (from the command git log --format="%aN <%aE>" | sort -u | wc -l, which thanks to the updated .mailmap, is correct). There are five people in the AUTHORS file who are not in the git metadata, either because they were not attributed correctly or because their last contribution was from before the move from SVN when we lost some history. They are now marked with a * in the AUTHORS file. There is one person who is not listed in the AUTHORS file (by request). So this totals 170 authors, as of right now. We can now also determine when the nth author was added by looking at the order in AUTHORS/aboutus, adding 1 for all but the first few contributors because of the person who is not listed (I'm not sure where exactly the line is drawn, Ondrej?), since they are in order in the file. From this, we can see that the 100th author, Cristóvão Sousa, contributed in November 2010. And I'm convinced that we will get our 200th contributor at some point in 2012. To put that in perspective, Ondrej started the project in 2005. This does not include people (including many GCI students) who have contributed to other GitHub projects only, like the website or SymPy Live. These probably deserve their own AUTHORS files. >From now on, we need to make sure to keep both .mailmap and AUTHORS/aboutus up-to-date, so that we can easily find people missing from the AUTHORS/aboutus from the git history. Aaron Meurer -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sympy" 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/sympy?hl=en.
