Patch Count?

Josh Berkus wrote:

Marc and/or Bruce:

Hey, for my information (people ask me this a lot) can one of you do a count
of patch submitters for 8.0? For 7.4, it was around 180.

How do you get the count? CVS names at the tail of the commit?

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Marc,

How do you get the count? CVS names at the tail of the commit?

I don't know; Marc and you did it. I'm looking for the number of *people*,
not the number of patches. So part of it would come from your mailbox.

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Josh Berkus wrote:

Marc,

How do you get the count? CVS names at the tail of the commit?

I don't know; Marc and you did it. I'm looking for the number of *people*,
not the number of patches. So part of it would come from your mailbox.

I didn't do it, but it might have been a guess of mine.

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yOn Fri, 4 Feb 2005, Bruce Momjian wrote:

Josh Berkus wrote:

Marc,

How do you get the count? CVS names at the tail of the commit?

I don't know; Marc and you did it. I'm looking for the number of *people*,
not the number of patches. So part of it would come from your mailbox.

I didn't do it, but it might have been a guess of mine.

Ya, I don't recall doing it either :)

But let me see if I can come up with some *very* rought #s ...

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Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> writes:

How do you get the count? CVS names at the tail of the commit?

I don't know; Marc and you did it. I'm looking for the number of *people*,
not the number of patches. So part of it would come from your mailbox.

Trolling through the pgsql-patches archives might work to count the
number of different people who submitted patches. The number of those
whose work got accepted would be a bit lower of course. If you want the
latter you probably have to troll the CVS logs --- and I'd be a bit
worried that we might have failed to credit some patches properly in the
CVS entries. Are you after an optimistic number or a pessimistic one?

regards, tom lane

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I didn't do it, but it might have been a guess of mine.

Ya, I don't recall doing it either :)

I did it last time. It's been a while now, but I think what I
did was basically look at all the commit messages from the
previous release to the current one, and then used a perl script
to extract everything that looked like a name or an email
address. Then I manually went through and cleaned things up by
verifying names, removing duplicates, etc. This relies on the
actual commiter giving credit to the patcher, but everyone
here is really good about doing that. :) Not sure if I still have
the script around, but I can dig it up if it's needed.

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On Sat, 5 Feb 2005, Greg Sabino Mullane wrote:

I did it last time. It's been a while now, but I think what I
did was basically look at all the commit messages from the
previous release to the current one, and then used a perl script
to extract everything that looked like a name or an email
address. Then I manually went through and cleaned things up by
verifying names, removing duplicates, etc. This relies on the
actual commiter giving credit to the patcher, but everyone
here is really good about doing that. :) Not sure if I still have
the script around, but I can dig it up if it's needed.

I'm trying the following on the archives:

grep From: `find 2004-* 2003-1[12] -type f -name "msg*" -exec grep --silent "^diff " {} \; -print` | \
awk -F: '{print $3}' | \
sed 's/<\/em>//g' | \
sed 's/</ /' | \
awk '{printf"%s %s\n", $1, $2}' | \
sort -u

The problem with commit logs is that a good portion are just 'reports
from' vs patches ... neither method will necessarily be particularly
accurate :)

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On Sat, 5 Feb 2005, Marc G. Fournier wrote:

But let me see if I can come up with some *very* rought #s ...

57 ...

Alvaro Herrera
Andreas Pflug
Andrew Dunstan
Andrew Hammond
Bruce Momjian
Christopher Kings-Lynne
Claudio Natoli
Dave Page
David Fetter
Dennis Bjorklund
Ed L.
Fabien COELHO
Gaetano Mendola
Gavin Sherry
Greg Sabino
James William
Jan Wieck
Jason Tishler
Jim Seymour
Joe Conway
John Hansen
Karel Zak
Kenneth Marshall
Korea PostgreSQL
Kris Jurka
Kurt Roeckx
Larry Rosenman
Laurent Ballester
Magnus Hagander
Mahesh Swamy
Manfred Koizar
Manfred Spraul
Markus Bertheau
Martin M&#xFC;nstermann
Matthew T.
Michael Glaesemann
Michael Meskes
Neil Conway
Nicolai Tufar
Oliver Jowett
Peter Eisentraut
Philip Yarra
Reece Hart
Reini Urban
Robert Treat
Rod Taylor
Sean Chittenden
Sergej Sergeev
Simon Riggs
Stefan Kaltenbrunner
Stephan Szabo
Tatsuo Ishii
Thomas Hallgren
Tom Lane
Tony Reina
Troels Arvin
Zach Irmen

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Using the same search for 7.4 shows only 48 patch submitters, based on
posts to pgsql-patches ...

Aizaz Ahmed
Alvaro Herrera
Andreas Pflug
Andrew Dunstan
Barry Lind
Bertrand Petit
Bruce Momjian
Bruno Wolff
Christopher Browne
Christopher Kings-Lynne
Dave Cramer
Dennis Bj&#xF6;rklund
Fernando Nasser
Gavin Sherry
Hal Snyder
Heikki Linnakangas
Ivar
Jan Wieck
Jason Tishler
Jeroen T.
Joe Conway
Jonathan Bartlett
Josh Berkus
Josh Wilmes
Karel Zak
Kevin Brown
Kim Ho
Kris Jurka
Kurt Roeckx
Larry Rosenman
Lee Kindness
Manfred Koizar
Manfred Spraul
Michael Graff
Michael Meskes
Neil Conway
Nic Ferrier
Nigel J.
Nigel Kukard
Patrick Welche
Peter Eisentraut
Robert Treat
Roberto Mello
Rod Taylor
Ron Mayer
Sean Chittenden
Tom Lane
Troels Arvin

I think I'm telling you what you already know, but there are lots of
names missing from that list (myself included), so that process isn't
going to work.

Matthew

Marc G. Fournier wrote:

On Sat, 5 Feb 2005, Matthew T. O'Connor wrote:

I think I'm telling you what you already know, but there are lots of names
missing from that list (myself included), so that process isn't going to
work.

When you submit'd your patch, where did you submit this to? As I said,
this list is of all those that submit'd patches to pgsql-patches itself,
not any of the other lists ... if you did send it to pgsql-patches, please
let me know the URL for the message, so that I can see what it was
overlooked, and see if I can't improve the 'search' ...

Matthew >

Marc G. Fournier wrote:

Using the same search for 7.4 shows only 48 patch submitters, based on
posts to pgsql-patches ...

Aizaz Ahmed
Alvaro Herrera
Andreas Pflug
Andrew Dunstan
Barry Lind
Bertrand Petit
Bruce Momjian
Bruno Wolff
Christopher Browne
Christopher Kings-Lynne
Dave Cramer
Dennis Bj&#xF6;rklund
Fernando Nasser
Gavin Sherry
Hal Snyder
Heikki Linnakangas
Ivar Jan Wieck
Jason Tishler
Jeroen T.
Joe Conway
Jonathan Bartlett
Josh Berkus
Josh Wilmes
Karel Zak
Kevin Brown
Kim Ho
Kris Jurka
Kurt Roeckx
Larry Rosenman
Lee Kindness
Manfred Koizar
Manfred Spraul
Michael Graff
Michael Meskes
Neil Conway
Nic Ferrier
Nigel J.
Nigel Kukard
Patrick Welche
Peter Eisentraut
Robert Treat
Roberto Mello
Rod Taylor
Ron Mayer
Sean Chittenden
Tom Lane
Troels Arvin

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Marc G. Fournier wrote:

On Sat, 5 Feb 2005, Matthew T. O'Connor wrote:

I think I'm telling you what you already know, but there are lots of
names missing from that list (myself included), so that process isn't
going to work.

When you submit'd your patch, where did you submit this to? As I
said, this list is of all those that submit'd patches to pgsql-patches
itself, not any of the other lists ... if you did send it to
pgsql-patches, please let me know the URL for the message, so that I
can see what it was overlooked, and see if I can't improve the
'search' ...

Well I'm positive I submitted all my pg_autovacuum patches to the
patches list, however searching the archives for autovacuum I can't find
anything that old. How far back to the searchable archives go?

On Sat, 5 Feb 2005, Matthew T. O'Connor wrote:

Marc G. Fournier wrote:

On Sat, 5 Feb 2005, Matthew T. O'Connor wrote:

I think I'm telling you what you already know, but there are lots of names
missing from that list (myself included), so that process isn't going to
work.

When you submit'd your patch, where did you submit this to? As I said,
this list is of all those that submit'd patches to pgsql-patches itself,
not any of the other lists ... if you did send it to pgsql-patches, please
let me know the URL for the message, so that I can see what it was
overlooked, and see if I can't improve the 'search' ...

Well I'm positive I submitted all my pg_autovacuum patches to the patches
list, however searching the archives for autovacuum I can't find anything
that old. How far back to the searchable archives go?

back to 96 or so ... :)

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Marc G. Fournier wrote:

On Sat, 5 Feb 2005, Matthew T. O'Connor wrote:

Well I'm positive I submitted all my pg_autovacuum patches to the
patches list, however searching the archives for autovacuum I can't
find anything that old. How far back to the searchable archives go?

back to 96 or so ... :)

I have noticed holes in the archives in the past though; mail that I
sent and was delivered back to me wasn't appearing in the archives. I
seem to remember it was a particular time period that was missing but I
can't remember the exact details.

-O

Hi Marc,

I think I'm telling you what you already know, but there are lots

of names

missing from that list (myself included), so that process isn't

going to

work.

Me too. Maybe some improvement in the routine.

When you submit'd your patch, where did you submit this to? As I
said,
this list is of all those that submit'd patches to pgsql-patches
itself,
not any of the other lists ... if you did send it to pgsql-patches,
please
let me know the URL for the message, so that I can see what it was
overlooked, and see if I can't improve the 'search' ...

You just consider the plain text attachments. What about the encoded
attachments [1]http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-patches/2004-05/msg00377.php and the gziped [2]http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-patches/2005-01/msg00217.php ones?
IMO you need to filter out all sorts of attachments that could be
possible (grep in the 'Content-Type:' could solve this) then choose the
kind of attachments accepted as 'patches'.
So using this approach and yours (grep plain text attachments) can lead
to a reasonable result.

[1]: http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-patches/2004-05/msg00377.php
[2]: http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-patches/2005-01/msg00217.php

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Euler Taveira de Oliveira <eulerto@yahoo.com.br> writes:

You just consider the plain text attachments. What about the encoded
attachments [1] and the gziped [2] ones?

And what of people who sent patches in-line (not as MIME-ified
attachments)? Or who sent them to -hackers instead of -patches?

Trolling -hackers for attachments would require a deal of manual
attention, unfortunately, because a lot of messages of that kind
would be bug reports not patches. I'm not real sure that there
aren't some non-patch attachments on -patches as well.

regards, tom lane

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Josh Berkus originally wrote:

Hey, for my information (people ask me this a lot) can one of you do a count
of patch submitters for 8.0? For 7.4, it was around 180.

Perhaps this is the gist of the problem: the 180 count was not "patch
submitters" but "people who helped develop 7.4" whether or not they actually
submitted a bona fide patch. If it was just patches, the number would
probably be about 50 or so, I would estimate. It's certainly a fuzzy line,
but I'd argue that somebody who points out a memory leak that is subsequently
patched by Tom should get credit as a "developer", even if no actual patch
was submitted.

I'll give it a go for 8.0 and see what number I come up with.

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This thread somehow reminds me how the company I'm working for
tries to measure my profitability: lines of code edited,
number of bugs fixed in what time, and other odd things :-)

Sorry if this is the wrong subject ...

Greg Sabino Mullane schrieb:

On Sun, 6 Feb 2005, Greg Sabino Mullane wrote:

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Josh Berkus originally wrote:

Hey, for my information (people ask me this a lot) can one of you do a count
of patch submitters for 8.0? For 7.4, it was around 180.

Perhaps this is the gist of the problem: the 180 count was not "patch
submitters" but "people who helped develop 7.4" whether or not they
actually submitted a bona fide patch. If it was just patches, the number
would probably be about 50 or so, I would estimate. It's certainly a
fuzzy line, but I'd argue that somebody who points out a memory leak
that is subsequently patched by Tom should get credit as a "developer",
even if no actual patch was submitted.

The thing is, once we get to *this* point, then we really need to just
count all ppl that posted to -hackers during that time period, as that
would include feedback on proposed changes, bug reports, etc ... since, by
your definition above, they all became 'developers' as well ...

Not saying that this isn't the right approach, just pointing out that
'feedback' on a proposed change isn't much differen then pointing out
problems with a current implementation ...

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Marc G. Fournier wrote:

please let me know the URL for the message, so that I can see what it
was overlooked, and see if I can't improve the 'search' ...

Marc - here is one I submitted that was not picked up :-)

http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-patches/2005-01/msg00145.php

regards

Mark

Hi Tom,

Trolling -hackers for attachments would require a deal of manual
attention, unfortunately, because a lot of messages of that kind
would be bug reports not patches. I'm not real sure that there
aren't some non-patch attachments on -patches as well.

That's why we need a Bug Tracking System. It was discussed some time
ago and what is the clue? IMHO A BTS is an essencial part in the
software development process.

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On Sun, 6 Feb 2005, Euler Taveira de Oliveira wrote:

Hi Tom,

Trolling -hackers for attachments would require a deal of manual
attention, unfortunately, because a lot of messages of that kind
would be bug reports not patches. I'm not real sure that there
aren't some non-patch attachments on -patches as well.

That's why we need a Bug Tracking System. It was discussed some time
ago and what is the clue? IMHO A BTS is an essencial part in the
software development process.

So that we can count # of patch submitters? :)

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