Re: Does Richard M. Stallman still scrutinize and develop the codes of Emacs now?

[Hongyi Zhao]

On Sun, Aug 15, 2021 at 3:35 PM Hongyi Zhao <hongyi.zhao@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Sun, Aug 15, 2021 at 3:18 PM Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
> > [...]
> > The AUTHORS file lists contributions to Emacs since the very
> > beginning, more than 35 years ago.  Any contributions since then till
> > this day are reflected in AUTHORS, and what the contributors do lately
> > doesn't matter at all.  How far back did you go in your study of RMS's
> > contributions?
>
> I got some clues based on some digging into the Emacs git repo, as shown 
> below:
>
> $ git log -1
> commit 3572613550f5d1d0b3392dbc809b32f3989e2981 (HEAD -> master,
> origin/master, origin/HEAD)
> Author: Wolfgang Scherer <wolfgang.scherer@gmx.de>
> Date:   Sun Aug 15 04:02:23 2021 +0300
>
> $ git log | grep -m1 -A1 -B1 -i 'Richard M. Stallman'
> commit dca743f0941909a80e3f28c023977120b6203e20
> Author: Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
> Date:   Sun Mar 22 03:51:55 2015 -0400
>
> The most recent commit by RMS was done in 2015.

And some more statistics:

The total commit till now:

$ git log |grep ^commit | wc -l
149419

The commits of RMS till now:
$ git log|grep  -A1 -B1 -i 'Richard M. Stallman' | grep Author: | wc -l
20575

It's unquestionable that RMS is the initiator and one of the most
important contributors of Emacs.

Best, Hongyi