From: Simon Strandgaard <0bz63fz3m1qt3001@...>
Date: 2003-07-17T02:30:27+09:00
Subject: Re: Complete list of Ruby devs, periods of activity (RE: Ruby Developers)

On Thu, 17 Jul 2003 03:01:45 +0900, why the lucky stiff wrote:

> On Tuesday 15 July 2003 10:01 pm, maillist@bestworldweb.homelinux.com wrote:
>> Does ruby have active developers or does matz do basically everything? I
>> am just wondering.
> 
> The ChangeLog shows that 126 developers have contributed to Ruby's source 
> since 1997.  Processing the current CVS ChangeLog reveals that Matz far leads 
> the pack of developers, but there are easily 20 developers working on the 
> source code these days.
> 
> Here's a complete summary from the ChangeLog, which counts the number of 
> changes for a developer and shows their date range of activity.
[snip rubyists]
> Below is the script to parse the ChangeLog.
[snip code]


It perfectly matches zipf's law about distribution, also know as the 80-20
rule (or the 90-10 rule).

:-)

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Simon Strandgaard