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Blender – Top Committers 2021

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For a second there, I thought the numbers in the brackets indicated the age. Then I saw the number 142 then it dawned on me, that maybe the number meant something else. Not 92, 99, 103.... but only when I saw 142, I thought maybe there is something wrong here.

Same. I said to myself, "Wow these people have taken good care of themselves to be contributing to Blender at 92 and 93 years old!" But then I saw 700 and had a split take.

It would be strange to say "Here are the names and ages of all of our contributors" As if Age is the most important factor.

They should put the number of patches in grey under the name and say X patches instead of putting the number of patches in parenthesis next to the name.

Same here.

It's a piece about commuters. I suspect it's the number of commits attributed to that commiter.

*committer

Same here.

Campbell Barton has a few videos https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCf6H5gmQzEBjV9zAxcYjzmg

This inspired me to publish a short blog post: https://docs.mergestat.com/blog/2022/01/01/a-year-in-commits

Counting commits, as mentioned, isn't particularly useful as an independent/absolute number - but I think it's an interesting way to see a high level "amount of contribution" relative to other contributors in a codebase. Of course, "commits" as a unit are not normalized, so this is problematic if you're trying to derive some deeper conclusion from counting commits IMO

That font seems to be broken on Firefox+Windows.

The "y" in "Hans Goudey" or the "B" in "Campbell Barton" have parts that look weirdly broken. Like in the B, the top right curve is very thick, but the bottom right curve is very thin. But comparing this website to the original "Heebo" font on fonts.adobe.com, it seems that it's a file format conversion somewhere breaking things.

Power law and asymmetries

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