Re: Development Speed

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2021 01:55:56 +0100 (CET)
> From: xenodasein@tutanota.de
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
> 
> Quoting: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2021-12/msg02015.html
> From: Eli Zaretskii
> Subject: Re: Development Speed
> Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2021 16:52:13 +0200
> 
> > Our Git repository is public, so everyone can study its statistics.
> > Do you have any evidence that the rate of changes and contributions in
> > Emacs deteriorates with the years?
> 
> I did not necessarily want to imply that it was an existing problem,
> just a what-if.  I do not have it but I suppose some numbers could be
> produced using amounts of active contributors, contributions, total LOC,
> etc. and ratios as evidence?  There are also software that analyze code
> complexity using metrics such as cyclomatic complexity I believe.

We have enough real issues to take up all my free time, I don't need
hypothetical what-if's added to them.  You are welcome to produce such
numbers, and if you think they are of interest, post them.

> My reason own to bring it up was that I absolutely hated what I saw
> here: GOOGLE ALERT 
> https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=%2Fm%2F01yp0m,%2Fm%2F07zh7,%2Fm%2F0134xwrk

The challenge is to identify the _real_ causes of that, and then see
what we can do about them.