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Sun, 25 Oct 2026 23:50:28 -0400 (EDT) From: Junio C Hamano To: Jeff King Cc: Tuomas Ahola , Phillip Wood , Emily Shaffer , git@vger.kernel.org, Justin Tobler Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation: propose community voting process In-Reply-To: <20261026011731.GA3575069@coredump.intra.peff.net> (Jeff King's message of "Sun, 25 Oct 2026 21:17:31 -0400") References: <20261021200341.378978-1-emilyshaffer@google.com> <20261024111856.8s8qu%taahol@utu.fi> <20261026011731.GA3575069@coredump.intra.peff.net> Date: Sun, 25 Oct 2026 20:50:26 -0700 Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) 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 Content-Type: text/plain Jeff King 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.