Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2011 18:08:56 -0500 From: Eitan Adler <lists@eitanadler.com> To: Joel Dahl <joel@vnode.se> Cc: Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com>, doc@freebsd.org, Chris Rees <utisoft@gmail.com>, Joel Dahl <joel@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: FreeBSD developers / committers list Message-ID: <CAF6rxgn-p6p3TSZ0JbfXmWZNkCcOx698uwaGwOf796-zPwCBJA@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20111108204806.GH83971@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> <20111108204806.GH83971@goofy01.vnodelab.local>
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On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 3:48 PM, Joel Dahl <joel@vnode.se> wrote: > 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 alum= ni at >> > >>>> [2] -- they seem a little out of date. =C2=A0As of right now (tod= ay), there >> > >>>> are ~90 people on that list who aren't listed in any CVSROOT-*/ac= cess >> > >>>> 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, plea= se go >> > >>> ahead. >> > >>> >> > >> >> > >> Thanks. Merging 90 odd entries sounds pretty dull by hand, I'll hav= e a >> > >> go at scripting it and hopefully have a patch ready by later this w= eek >> > >> (!) >> > > >> > > Right, so I hacked together a few scripts, apparently the hardest ta= sk >> > > is deciding when people joined/left; cvs annotate doesn't help for >> > > removed lines, so I resorted to grepping the cvs mailing list archiv= es >> > > 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 ove= r >> > > it to check I haven't made any mistakes too. >> > > >> > > Please would someone kindly check I haven't done anything awful befo= re >> > > 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/ar= ticle.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 th= em: It would be interesting to have this file automatically generated from src/share/misc/committers-*.dot or some other canonical file. We shouldn't have to update it in multiple places. --=20 Eitan Adler
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