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[Joel Dahl]

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 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On 4 November 2011 15:30, Chris Rees <utisoft at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >> On 4 November 2011 14:43, Joel Dahl <joel at 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 alumni at
> > >>>> [2] -- they seem a little out of date.  As of right now (today), there
> > >>>> are ~90 people on that list who aren't listed in any CVSROOT-*/access
> > >>>> 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, please go
> > >>> ahead.
> > >>>
> > >>
> > >> Thanks. Merging 90 odd entries sounds pretty dull by hand, I'll have a
> > >> go at scripting it and hopefully have a patch ready by later this week
> > >> (!)
> > >
> > > Right, so I hacked together a few scripts, apparently the hardest task
> > > is deciding when people joined/left; cvs annotate doesn't help for
> > > removed lines, so I resorted to grepping the cvs mailing list archives
> > > 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 over
> > > it to check I haven't made any mistakes too.
> > >
> > > Please would someone kindly check I haven't done anything awful before
> > > 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/article.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 them:
> 
> scrappy@ (1996 - 2011)
> tg@ (1995 - 2009)
> tegge@ (1997 - 2008)
> foxfair@ (1998 - 2008)
> fenner@ (1996 - 2008)
> andreas@ (1996 - 2008)

...replying to myself: I also noticed missing join dates for jb@ and jmz@
in the in memoriam section.

jb@ got his commit bit in 1997, and jmz@ got his commit bit in 1994.

-- 
Joel