Re: [Libreoffice] new credits up, now with less contributors

On Fri, 2010-12-03 at 16:44 +0100, Jan Holesovsky wrote:
> Hi Sebastian,
>
> On 2010-12-03 at 16:21 +0100, Sebastian Spaeth wrote:
>
> > > Hmm.  My stat looks weird.
> > >
> > > Kohei Yoshida
> > > Commits: 643
> > > Joined: 2009-06-19
> >
> > Yep, incredible but true,
>
> One of the reasons is that during the cvs -> svn and svn -> hg
> conversions, the history had been cut just to the merge commits, so the
> real attribution is impossible in the pre-hg history of the repos.

Yup, and that's also the reason why the top 4 (or 5?) people have such
outrageously high commit counts.  They are/were Oracle/Sun release
engineers, and what they do is merge feature branches into the mainline
in their own names, instead of the respective owners of those branches.
So, even among Oracle/Sun engineers, the credits are unfairly skewed
towards the release engineers.

I don't think there is anything we can do about this, but it's worth a
mention.

Kohei

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Kohei Yoshida, LibreOffice hacker, Calc
<kyoshida@novell.com>