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Toward a "modern" Emacs

Toward a "modern" Emacs

Posted Sep 25, 2020 20:46 UTC (Fri) by mohg (guest, #114025)
In reply to: Toward a "modern" Emacs by josh
Parent article: Toward a "modern" Emacs

> The total number of people who have *ever* contributed to Emacs is remarkably low, for a project with as long a history as it has.

There are around 1900 people listed in the AUTHORS file for Emacs.
There are currently over 200 people with commit rights.

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Developers

Posted Sep 25, 2020 21:23 UTC (Fri) by corbet (editor, #1) [Link]

For the curious, I did a quick gitdm run; from 26.1 to 27.1 saw 8237 patches from 326 developers. 50% of those came from five developers (Lars Ingebrigtsen, Eli Zaretskii, Paul Eggert, Michael Albinus, Stefan Monnier). There are 166 people who contributed exactly one patch toward this release.


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