On Sun, Jan 30, 2022 at 11:00 AM Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote: > "J.P." writes: > > > Apologies for the unintelligible mumblage. Somehow (believe it or not), > > I was trying to ask whether there's a system in place for keeping track > > of the number of non-trivial changes a non-paperwork holder has made so > > far. By "system" I guess I mean a person in charge of recording such > > information or perhaps a table somewhere to consult. But if it's less > > formal than all that, I suppose I'll just rely on the git history and > > whatever an author self-reports. Thanks. > > No, we don't have such a system, unfortunately. It's somewhat > subjective what counts -- we try to count "lines of code", so whitespace > changes don't count, of course, and other trivial transforms don't count > either. What I'd sometimes do 10+ years ago is keep an AUTHORS file with a list of who contributed, which files, and (in the case of unassigned contributors) how many lines so I knew if they were getting close to the limit. I'm not sure if that would map well to the Emacs repo, maybe a side file like ERC-AUTHORS, or just kept outside of the repo.