Thanks! I want to run some statistical analysis (not just on pgsql
but other OSS projects as well) on changes in committer population.
How could I figure out whether anyone ever left? (Or does one just
become dormant?)
My guess is that in most OSS projects, the number of committers
increases over time, but the rate of contributor to committer
conversion declines. May sound obvious, but of course there are other
factors, like pace of development and need for people that influences this.
Thanks again,
Dirk
PS: I guessed that pgsql-advocacy was a proper place to ask these
question. If not, please let me know. (And where to go, possibly.)
At 08.03.2006, Neil Conway wrote:
>On Wed, 2006-03-08 at 13:28 +0100, Dirk Riehle wrote:
> > I'm trying to understand the social structure of the PostgreSQL
> > project. Is there a documented history of who became a committer and
> > when?
>
>Not as far as I know -- the website has a list of current committers,
>but that doesn't include past committers or the date the commit bit was
>given out. You should be able to determine this information fairly
>easily by looking at the date of the first commit made by each committer
>in CVS.
>
>-Neil