[slime-devel] Re: Daily ChangeLog diff - NO MORE SLIME STARTUP ANIMATION!!

[Michael Price]

On 2/2/07, Sean O'Rourke <sorourke at cs.ucsd.edu> wrote:
> Juho Snellman <jsnell at iki.fi> writes:
> > I find the "community's version" to be a rather curious
> > concept.

Me too.

> Those who contribute more (i.e. not me) have more say in how the
> project evolves, but I don't claim some sort of ownership over
> the particular lines I've contributed, and I don't think that's
> the way things work in other projects, either.

Let's look at contribution then. The tables below just show number of
commits to slime.el and swank.lisp. They don't reflect size or
quality. If they did then the case for Helmut's moral ownership would
be even stronger.

slime.el:

287 heller
205 lgorrie
 76 mbaringer
 64 mkoeppe
 31 alendvai
 24 aruttenberg
 20 lukeg
 11 dbarlow
  8 pseibel
  8 ellerh
  5 jsnellman
  5 eweitz
  5 crhodes
  4 nsiivola
  4 bdowning
  1 wjenkner
  1 vsedach
  1 jbielman
  1 jamesjb
  1 asimon


swank.lisp:

192 heller
 91 lgorrie
 42 mbaringer
 41 mkoeppe
 25 alendvai
 16 lukeg
  9 ellerh
  9 dbarlow
  7 aruttenberg
  6 eweitz
  5 pseibel
  4 dcrosher
  4 crhodes
  2 vsedach
  2 nsiivola
  2 jsnellman
  2 bdowning
  2 asimon
  1 wjenkner
  1 jbielman


If those tables show anything it's that about four people have any
business commenting on the direction of the project. IMHO, everyone
else should seriously tone down their comments.

> > If anyone has a moral ownership of Slime, it's Helmut, who has
> > contributed by far the most to it.

Very true.

Michael