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Date:      Thu, 5 May 2005 20:56:58 +0300
From:      Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
To:        Chuck Robey <chuckr@chuckr.org>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: developer list in FreeBSD source tree
Message-ID:  <20050505175658.GA43269@orion.daedalusnetworks.priv>
In-Reply-To: <427A59F2.9000609@chuckr.org>
References:  <20050505081242.96644.qmail@istanbul.enderunix.org> <427A59F2.9000609@chuckr.org>

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On 2005-05-05 17:37, Chuck Robey <chuckr@chuckr.org> wrote:
>Omer Faruk Sen wrote:
>>There was a file in FreeBSD source tree that shows who is responsible
>>for related driver or program. I couldn't remeber it so I decided to
>>mail it to here. Can someone point me to the right document in /usr/src?
>
> There might have been such a thing in the past, but the best (and most
> reliable) method of determining responsibility is to check with 'cvs
> log' on the files in question, and find out who's been doing the
> committing.  That's a darn reliable method.

There is still /usr/src/MAINTAINERS.  I usually search there *and* use a
pair of local scripts that consult the cvs logs and print statistics:

% orion:/d/src/bin/sh$ logmost | head -5
% Rank  Commits  Percent  Name
% ----------------------------------
%    1      516   24.90%  peter
%    2      232   11.20%  tjr
%    3      223   10.76%  cracauer



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