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([2a0a:ef40:724:6601:f3ff:aebc:61f8:d91f]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id ffacd0b85a97d-48e3ecd39a9sm15940118f8f.46.2026.10.26.03.41.34 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128/128); Mon, 26 Oct 2026 03:41:34 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2026 10:41:32 +0000 X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: List-Owner: Precedence: list MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird From: Phillip Wood Reply-To: phillip.wood@dunelm.org.uk Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation: propose community voting process To: Jeff King , Tuomas Ahola Cc: Junio C Hamano , Emily Shaffer , git@vger.kernel.org, Justin Tobler References: <20261021200341.378978-1-emilyshaffer@google.com> <20261024111856.8s8qu%taahol@utu.fi> <20261026011731.GA3575069@coredump.intra.peff.net> Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: <20261026011731.GA3575069@coredump.intra.peff.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 26/10/2026 01:17, Jeff King wrote: > > I saw proposals elsewhere to cut it by time. I think "N commits in the > last M years" is awkward, because there are people who have been around > for a long time with steady but slow participation steady-but-slow > participation. I think it depends on N, with the low values that were in the proposal most long term contributors would have that number of commits in the last couple of years, but I agree that if we're going to raise the bar on the number of contributions then N commits over all time with at least one recent one makes sense. Thanks Phillip > But if you just intersect "N commits over all time" and > "has _any_ commits in the last M years", then you can get a table like: > > total | Active in the last N years > commits | N=1 N=2 N=3 N=5 > ---------------------------------------------------- > 200 | 17 22 24 30 > 50 | 34 47 56 67 > 10 | 71 104 124 155 > 1 | 239 357 457 628 > > Those aren't necessarily perfect metrics, but if we consider them good > enough and just want to tune the parameters, we could probably pick a > spot in the table that has about the number of votes we'd want to deal > with. > > -Peff