Flashback: Fedora Docs CVS

John J. McDonough wb8rcr at arrl.net
Sun Dec 1 02:35:22 UTC 2013


On Sat, 2013-11-30 at 16:40 -0700, Pete Travis wrote:
> I spent some time this afternoon playing around with the Fedora Docs CVS
> archive. The ambassador team is rewarding commemorative t-shirts to
> long-time contributors, and between the CVS logs and git logs with help
> from ohloh[1] I'll sort out who has been the most active over the last
> 10 years.
> 
> The script found:
> 
> 143 branches
> 11720 total commits
> 108 unique committers
> Top committers:
>    5011 pfrields
>     962 kwade

You really gotta give some credit to Paul and Karsten.  CVS commits are
PAINFUL.  It was especially bad back when the Docs website was in CVS.
A push could take 8 or 10 hours.  And each file had to be individually
committed.

--McD




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