[FFmpeg-devel] [VOTE] Equality and leader team

[Baptiste Coudurier]

On 2/5/11 6:10 PM, Felipe Contreras wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 11:21 PM, Michael Niedermayer <michaelni at gmx.at> wrote:
>> On Sat, Feb 05, 2011 at 09:34:34PM +0200, Felipe Contreras wrote:
>>> On Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 6:31 PM, Michael Niedermayer <michaelni at gmx.at> wrote:
>>>> On Sat, Feb 05, 2011 at 05:47:18PM +0200, Felipe Contreras wrote:
>>>>> On Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 1:31 PM, Michael Niedermayer <michaelni at gmx.at> wrote:
>>>>>> It was said the new system is similar to the linux kernel, but really it has
>>>>>> nothing to do with it. Linus and Andrew have not been locked out of the
>>>>>> process by 7 of their friends and asked to send patches.
>>>>>
>>>>> This shows you have absolutely no idea how linux development works.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Andrew Morton sends all his patches:
>>>>> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.mm/57767
>>>>>
>>>>> In fact, he has to, because nor he, nor anybody else has commit access
>>>>> to Linus's tree, but Linus. That's the whole point of a *distributed*
>>>>> DSCM; every person has his own repo. But according to your definition,
>>>>> Linus has evilly locked out all kernel developers and maintainers.
>>>>
>>>> nope, linus is the most qualified and it makes alot of sense that he is the
>>>> gatekeeper, what we have here is different, the 7 barely know maybe 1/3 of
>>>> the code. Iam alone the author of 1/3 and know alot more.
>>>
>>> And this statement is bogus, this is what git blame returns:
>>
>> The 1/3 statement was from prior to alot of cosmetic cleanup and used a few
>> tricks to trace through whitespace changes.
>> also your figure of 10.49% for diego shows your statistic is totally bogus,
>> diego does cleanup (and usefull cleanup) but he doesnt write C code nor asm.
> 
> These are the numbers from Jan 15.
> 
> <darkshikari at gmail.com>	0.84%
> <pross at xvid.org>	1.12%
> <martin at martin.st>	1.14%
> <alex.converse at gmail.com>	1.28%
> <lorenm at u.washington.edu>	1.31%
> <lessen42 at gmail.com>	1.43%
> <ramiro.polla at gmail.com>	1.47%
> <justin.ruggles at gmail.com>	1.48%
> <Reimar.Doeffinger at gmx.de>	1.98%
> <aurel at gnuage.org>	2.17%
> <baptiste.coudurier at gmail.com>	2.62%
> <stefano.sabatini-lala at poste.it>	3.09%
> <rsbultje at gmail.com>	3.38%
> <mike at multimedia.cx>	3.88%
> <vitor1001 at gmail.com>	4.39%
> <fabrice at bellard.org>	5.99%
> <kostya.shishkov at gmail.com>	6.07%
> <diego at biurrun.de>	10.45%
> <mans at mansr.com>	10.91%
> <michaelni at gmx.at>	14.61%
> 
> Hardly any difference. If you have any numbers that show you authored
> 1/3 of the code, give them. I for one don't trust that statement one
> bit.

I'll repeat that these numbers do not mean anything.
Don't you realize that cosmetics changes, grammar changes, typos fixed,
documentation, license headers, etc... are counted in ?

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