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

[Felipe Contreras]

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.

-- 
Felipe Contreras