Re: Motivational statistics

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

On Sat, Feb 1, 2020 at 12:59 AM Urs Liska <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I wanted to get a better understanding from my impression of the
> significant increase in traffic on lilypond-devel.
>
> For this I did some statistics on James' "PATCHES - Countdown"
> messages. Since patches are counted multiple times while flowing
> through the process I think the only relevant metric is the "New"
> section, and this should not be calculated by the countdown message but
> averaged by day. And the results are convincing:
>
> Four weeks leading to the Salzburg conference:
> 0,32 new patches per day
>
> Since Salzburg:
> 1,46 patches per day

Thanks for the stats. I guess it's mostly me, though.

$ git log --author=hanwen --since 2016 | grep ^commit| wc
     16      32     768

> Of course these are no scientifically hardened results - but they match
> the feeling of excited frenzy visible on this list. However sustainable
> the effect may be, the short term impact of the developer meeting and
> the conference seems to have been remarkable.

I am also forming more coherent ideas about the development process,
but I am still unsure about the final push process. As I understand
it, you have to push to staging, and then someone (David?) runs patchy
over the staging branch, verifies the regtest output, and pushes to
master. Is that roughly correct?

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