Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2011 21:48:06 +0100 From: Joel Dahl <joel@vnode.se> To: Chris Rees <utisoft@gmail.com> Cc: Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com>, doc@freebsd.org, Joel Dahl <joel@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: FreeBSD developers / committers list Message-ID: <20111108204806.GH83971@goofy01.vnodelab.local> In-Reply-To: <20111108203811.GG83971@goofy01.vnodelab.local> References: <CADLo839KBMB-sx8bNwP=NDOaVvkF8OAM4pNa-OQ-U%2B9gdMZENQ@mail.gmail.com> <20111104144300.GF83971@goofy01.vnodelab.local> <CADLo83-EBdSewQokWG-fGYu-rW%2BkbObuFUfzL4FjjHAaS7U_ng@mail.gmail.com> <CADLo838dCq8hFegeLtGjhNjcWnfY3VQufD1wqQ_3=BEtCkLOig@mail.gmail.com> <CADLo83_dPm2R_1p_Kt4%2B97AmwRoRP_fwh7fYKDfo34-oiosBbg@mail.gmail.com> <20111108203811.GG83971@goofy01.vnodelab.local>
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On 08-11-2011 21:38, Joel Dahl wrote: > On 08-11-2011 19:45, Chris Rees wrote: > > On 6 November 2011 13:59, Chris Rees <utisoft@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On 4 November 2011 15:30, Chris Rees <utisoft@gmail.com> wrote: > > >> On 4 November 2011 14:43, Joel Dahl <joel@freebsd.org> wrote: > > >>> On 03-11-2011 20:21, Chris Rees wrote: > > >>>> Hey all, > > >>>> > > >>>> We have a list of developers at [1], and a list of developer alumni at > > >>>> [2] -- they seem a little out of date. As of right now (today), there > > >>>> are ~90 people on that list who aren't listed in any CVSROOT-*/access > > >>>> lists; I'm conscious that most have been Grim Reapered/resigned, and > > >>>> the Alumni page hasn't been updated... > > >>>> > > >>>> Is there a policy on the Alumni page? Is it deliberate that these guys > > >>>> have been left in, or just that no-one has updated the page? > > >>> > > >>> No-one has updated it. I kept it updated for a few years, but not anymore. > > >>> I was hoping someone would grab it. If you want to update it, please go > > >>> ahead. > > >>> > > >> > > >> Thanks. Merging 90 odd entries sounds pretty dull by hand, I'll have a > > >> go at scripting it and hopefully have a patch ready by later this week > > >> (!) > > > > > > Right, so I hacked together a few scripts, apparently the hardest task > > > is deciding when people joined/left; cvs annotate doesn't help for > > > removed lines, so I resorted to grepping the cvs mailing list archives > > > for first and last commits. > > > > > > Having done that... I have a patch [1]! > > > > > > I've rendered the output at [2], and run several greps and uniqs over > > > it to check I haven't made any mistakes too. > > > > > > Please would someone kindly check I haven't done anything awful before > > > giving me go-ahead? (I'm a ports guy, so I should probably have an > > > Approved tag in there...) > > > > > > The alumni with no start date have made commits in 1998, and I've > > > assumed that they may have been members beforehand; it'd be pretty > > > hard work chasing their dates down. On the plus side, we now have a > > > start date for Bruce Cran :) > > > > > > Chris > > > > > > [1] http://www.bayofrum.net/~crees/lists/developers-list-20111103/article.html > > > > > > [2] http://www.bayofrum.net/~crees/patches/contrib-developers.patch.txt > > > > Er... Bruce Mah, sorry. > > > > Also, I've reordered the list into a more logical order, as suggested > > by gjb in order of firstly leaving date, then starting date. > > > > I've also gone through the bottom of the list, and put the old > > contributors back into authors.ent because I think it looks better > > with email addresses etc :) > > > > Anyone care to comment/approve? > > Hm. I found two entries with wrong dates: > > rpaulo@ returned his commit bit in 2010. > dhartmei@ returned his commit bit in 2008. > > Also, I see a lot of missing dates. This should hopefully fix most of them: > > scrappy@ (1996 - 2011) > tg@ (1995 - 2009) > tegge@ (1997 - 2008) > foxfair@ (1998 - 2008) > fenner@ (1996 - 2008) > andreas@ (1996 - 2008) ...replying to myself: I also noticed missing join dates for jb@ and jmz@ in the in memoriam section. jb@ got his commit bit in 1997, and jmz@ got his commit bit in 1994. -- Joel
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