Re: [PATCH 0/2] git checkout: one bugfix and one cosmetic change

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mar 15, 2009, 19:38 UTC
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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

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> Kjetil Barvik <barvik@broadpark.no> writes:
>
>> Just one small bugfix patch, and one small cosmetic change.
>>
>> By the way, I wonder how often the list of 'Primary Authors' and
>> 'Contributors' on the webpage http://git-scm.com/about is updated.
>> Should'nt it be updated when a new release, like v1.6.2, is made?
>
> Thanks for noticing.  Though git-scm.com is not under my control, the site
> is considered the official git homepage these days, and I am glad to see
> improvements to its contents discussed here.  I do not see Scott very
> often on this list these days, so I am CC'ing him.

Ragarding the list on the page, I have one thought (not complete enough to be called suggestion) and one datapoint:

 (1) The boundary between the "Primary Authors" vs "Contributors" seems to
     be set at 50 commits with the current table.  This would mean that we
     will have a lot more primary authors as project progresses.  Is this
     desirable?

     We have 14999 non-merge commits as of 1.6.2; perhaps a per-cent (or a
     half per-cent) cutoff rule would give a more balanced and consistent
     view in the longer term [*1*]?

 (2) This script:

     $ git shortlog -s v1.6.1 | sed -e 's/^[ 0-9]*//' >/var/tmp/1
     $ git shortlog -s v1.6.2 | sed -e 's/^[ 0-9]*//' >/var/tmp/2
     $ comm -13 /var/tmp/[12]

     produces the list of new contributors.  There are 39 names [*2*].

[Footnotes]

*1* A more drastic change would be not to have two lists, but just one.

*2* Thanks and welcome.

    Allan Caffee, Ben Walton, Benjamin Kramer, Benjamin Sergeant, Benoit
    Sigoure, Danijel Tasov, David J. Mellor, Devin Doucette, Dévai Tamás,
    Elijah Newren, Eric Kidd, Fabian Franz, Felipe Contreras, Geoffrey
    Thomas, Henrik Austad, Jacob Helwig, Jake Goulding, Jeremy White,
    Johannes Gilger, Jonas Flodén, Keith Cascio, Kjetil Barvik, Marc
    Branchaud, Marc-Andre Lureau, Nazri Ramliy, Pat Notz, Paul Jarc, Peter
    Oberndorfer, Ray Chuan, Roy Lee, Serge van den Boom, Sergei Organov,
    Stefan Karpinski, Tay Ray Chuan, Ted Pavlic, Tor Arne Vestbø, Vitaly
    "_Vi" Shukela, Väinö Järvelä, jidanni@jidanni.org.