Who wrote 2.6.20?

Who wrote 2.6.20?

Posted Feb 21, 2007 16:46 UTC (Wed) by lmb (subscriber, #39048)
In reply to: Who wrote 2.6.20? by richardl@redhat.com
Parent article: Who wrote 2.6.20?

LoC changed is difficult though. For example, I could iterate 100 times trying to get a single line of code right. But then, software metrics are hard.

One suggestion for a possibly interesting metric, so that I don't have to code it myself:

Annotate the whole of the tree: Who last changed which line? Number of lines * age = Author score.

This can then be extended to a historical score: who contributed how many lines of code, and how long did they remain in the tree before being removed/changed? Developers changing their own code would get accumulated, so this is essentially neutral.

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