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>> Are there any long-lived community FOSS projects maintaining such |
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>> file? |
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> GNU Emacs: |
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> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/tree/etc/AUTHORS |
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> They add everyone who has contributed, and after 33 years the file |
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> has grown to 170 kB, which I think is still acceptable. We have some |
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> Manifest files that are much larger. |
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> So I don't think we would run into problems anytime soon, even if we |
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> added everybody (which we shouldn't, IMHO). |
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Ulrich is right. All authors with name and mail of the whole git tree |
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sum up to something in the order of 30 kB. |
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git log | grep "Author: "| sort | uniq | sed "s/Author: //g" | wc -c |
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Worst case estimation: |
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30 kB are 600 different contributors. |
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These contributors will change their mail address 5 times during their |
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active time. (Proxied maintainer, developer, 3 company mails) |
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Say the number of authors doubles within the next 10 years |
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then we will still have an authors.txt in the order of |
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300 kB in the year 2029. |
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Best, |
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Jonas |
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