From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 8 20:54:05 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 349811065673 for ; Tue, 8 Nov 2011 20:54:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from joel@vnode.se) Received: from mail.vnode.se (mail.vnode.se [62.119.52.80]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 57FAA8FC0A for ; Tue, 8 Nov 2011 20:54:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.vnode.se (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.vnode.se (Postfix) with ESMTP id 87D0CE3F07C; Tue, 8 Nov 2011 21:48:11 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at vnode.se Received: from mail.vnode.se ([127.0.0.1]) by mail.vnode.se (mail.vnode.se [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 40PHDl0v3gZX; Tue, 8 Nov 2011 21:48:08 +0100 (CET) Received: from goofy01.vnodelab.local (unknown [212.247.52.12]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.vnode.se (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 38546E3F079; Tue, 8 Nov 2011 21:48:08 +0100 (CET) Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2011 21:48:06 +0100 From: Joel Dahl To: Chris Rees Message-ID: <20111108204806.GH83971@goofy01.vnodelab.local> References: <20111104144300.GF83971@goofy01.vnodelab.local> <20111108203811.GG83971@goofy01.vnodelab.local> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20111108203811.GG83971@goofy01.vnodelab.local> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Cc: Mark Linimon , doc@freebsd.org, Joel Dahl Subject: Re: FreeBSD developers / committers list X-BeenThere: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Documentation project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 08 Nov 2011 20:54:05 -0000 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 wrote: > > > On 4 November 2011 15:30, Chris Rees wrote: > > >> On 4 November 2011 14:43, Joel Dahl 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 [2] -- they seem a little out of date.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