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From:
Craig A. Berry
Date:
July 3, 2010 16:57
Subject:
Re: backporting into 5.12.2 -- was kill $1 broken
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On Sat, Jul 3, 2010 at 10:00 AM, David Golden <xdaveg@gmail.com> wrote:

> Digging deeper, I looked at the percent of patches for the top ten and
> next ten for everything before GitLive-blead and then everything
> after.
>
> 1-10   Before: 67%   After: 68%
> 11-20 Before: 9%    After: 14%
>
> From that, it's clear that the pickup has been in the second rank.
> What will be interesting to see is how the composition of the top
> twenty changes over time.  While 4 of the top 5 are pumpkings, only
> half of the top ten are.

For a number of reasons I'd be cautious about comparing 20 years of
pre-git history with a year and a half of post-git, but I think you're
right that the second and third tiers don't drop off quite as
precipitously as before.  I suspect that has more to do with jesse's
recruitment efforts than with git, but every little bit helps.

The problem is that while a dozen or two new people contributing a
dozen or two patches a year is a good thing, it doesn't substantially
address the burden/risk of one or two people authoring 500-1000
patches a year and no one else even coming close (and in the days of
Jarkko that was one person authoring 1200-2500 patches a year).

> I didn't think the expansion of commit bits was intended to
> get more people applying other's patches.  I thought it was to let
> dual-life maintainers update their modules directly without burdening
> the existing committers.  Then some few of them (like me) have gone on
> to apply patches.

I think there are as many reasons for a commit bit as there are
committers.  I didn't mean to imply that anyone only pushing their own
patches is doing something wrong, just that we're not keeping up and
more committers hasn't helped much.

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