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[Chris Rees]

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 [2] -- they seem a little out of date.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