Re: [PATCH] Documentation: propose community voting process

[Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>]

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> But if somebody is picking a number, looking at "git shortlog -ns
> --no-merges | sort -rn" may be interesting, just to get a sense of how

I very much appreciate the "--no-merges" part of the command line ;-)

> ... 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.

Sounds like an interesting approach.