On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 11:09 AM, Xavier Noria <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > 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. > The complete list may never be perfect but we can see that there are more than 1400 contributors to Rails, that is something pretty awesome. Thanks for sharing this with us Xavier, Cheers --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
