So I played a bit with gitdm, the tool that is used to produce the stats for those "Who writes Linux" reports.
I'm only looking at the number of changesets, because the changed lines numbers are skewed by translation commits, especially if you look at a short period of time. Don't get me wrong, I love our translators, but I wanted to concentrate on the code contributions.
Full history
If you look at the whole history, starting at the first commit in June 2005 of what was called Sonance at the time, the amount of work put in by our two co-maintainers is quite visible.
4880 changesets from 159 developers
Developers with the most changesets
| Aaron Bockover | 2407 | 49.3% |
| Gabriel Burt | 1030 | 21.1% |
| Bertrand Lorentz | 137 | 2.8% |
| Scott Peterson | 112 | 2.3% |
| Alexander Kojevnikov | 78 | 1.6% |
Top changeset contributors by employer
| Novell | 3552 | 72.8% |
| (Other) | 1328 | 27.2% |
By the way, some contributors other than Aaron and Gabriel happen to be employed by Novell, but I'm quite sure that Banshee is NOT part of their job description and that they're contributing during their free time. They are nevertheless counted under "Novell".
From 1.4.2 to 1.5.1
If you look at what happened on the master branch from the 1.4.2 release in January 2009 up to the latest 1.5.1 release, things are quite different.
639 changesets from 73 developers
Developers with the most changesets
| Gabriel Burt | 223 | 34.9% |
| Bertrand Lorentz | 102 | 16.0% |
| Alexander Kojevnikov | 76 | 11.9% |
| Aaron Bockover | 74 | 11.6% |
| John Millikin | 13 | 2.0% |
Top changeset contributors by employer
| (Other) | 338 | 52.9% |
| Novell | 301 | 47.1% |
From 1.5.0 to 1.5.1
Concentrating on an even more recent period, between the 1.5.0 and 1.5.1 releases, the trend continues.
253 changesets from 54 developers
Developers with the most changesets
| Alexander Kojevnikov | 53 | 20.9% |
| Gabriel Burt | 52 | 20.6% |
| Bertrand Lorentz | 32 | 12.6% |
| Aaron Bockover | 24 | 9.5% |
| Jack Deslippe | 7 | 2.8% |
Top changeset contributors by employer
| (Other) | 175 | 69.2% |
| Novell | 78 | 30.8% |
This is also quite visible in the announcement for 1.5.1 : most of the heavy lifting for two major features (shuffle modes and Auto-DJ) was done by Alexander.
So my point is : Banshee is a GNOME project, driven by a great community and lead by two loving (and loved) maintainers. Come join us !
Update : Several smart folks have pointed out that before the migration to git in April 2009, the changesets are credited to the committer, and not to the actual author of the code. So be careful, those figures are statistics, so they're certainly lying in some way.
3 comments:
welcome to the world of blogs!
Glad you're blogging, and this was definitely an interesting read.
@boombox1387
Thanks ! I'll try to keep the "interestingness" level high ;)
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