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[Eitan Adler]

On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 3:48 PM, Joel Dahl <joel at 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 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 [2] -- they seem a little out of date.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:

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.

-- 
Eitan Adler