[fpc-other] Git & SVN

[Graeme Geldenhuys]

On 2017-05-24 21:21, Marco van de Voort wrote:
> Even a limited change is already a massive operation, let's keep it
> managable.

So how large is the FPC team really? I'm talking about active developers 
on a day-to-day basis who have commit access to Trunk.

Oh wait, I can answer that very accurately myself... using git.

$ cd /data/devel/fpc-3.1.1/src
[src (master)]$ git shortlog -s -n --since=4.months
    191  Michael Van Canneyt
    147  Mattias Gaertner
    140  nickysn
     83  svenbarth
     73  Florian Klaempfl
     62  pierre
     52  Joost van der Sluis
     39  maciej
     30  karoly
     26  Marco van de Voort
     23  Jonas Maebe
     22  yury
      7  lacak
      5  marcus
      3  Sergei Gorelkin
      2  hajny

So that's 16 developers - a nice size, but also not a large team (say 
compared to the KDE project that moved from SubVersion to Git, or LLVM 
seeing as that was mentioned earlier). The amount of commits are also 
not huge - so they most likely have a day job. ;-)

And the two developers with the most commits (by a large margin) work 
primarily in the RTL and FCL. That's development work like any other 
project I have worked on. Nothing special or "rocket science" about that 
(sorry Florian).

As for the 3rd person "nickysn"... I see he/she actually worked on the 
compiler/* tree. How do I know this?

   $ git log --name-only --oneline --since=2.months --author=nickysn

Randomly picking some other authors, it seems most work is primarily in 
the RTL and FCL. A few small exceptions like Sven and Florian who mostly 
work in the compiler tree.

So this definitely doesn't convince me that compiler development is so 
different to other projects. And definitely doesn't rule out that Git 
couldn't work, or that an improved workflow couldn't be applied (freeing 
up time in the long run).

But I get in now. You guys are set in your ways - good or bad, and 
currently not willing to change. So I'll leave it at that.


Regards,
   Graeme