[GitHub] [incubator-nuttx] patacongo edited a comment on issue #128: IP Clearance

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patacongo edited a comment on issue #128:
URL: https://github.com/apache/incubator-nuttx/issues/128#issuecomment-668979136


   > @PeterBee97 <https://github.com/PeterBee97> Cool, thanks??? I didn't 
   > realize the script already used git to find the authors, sorry for 
   > missing that. We will need all the authors, not just the top 3. I'll 
   > take a closer look tomorrow.
   >
   I mentioned this before, but it bears repeating.  The NuttX project was 13 years old in February of 2010.  For the first 6 to 6 and a half years, the project used CVS and SVN.  You will find no authorship or contact information for the first half of the project's life in the current GIT authors.  The log will show me as the sole author for during that time.
   
   I did by far most the changes in those days, but not all.  Prior to GIT, contributors were noted only in commit comments.  It should be possible to get the names, or in most cases just user handles, from the comments but with no contact information.
   
   Github apparently does not even know how to parse that early activity. If you look at 
   https://github.com/apache/incubator-nuttx/graphs/contributors you would conclude that the project has only existed since sometime in 2013.   The project was actually created in February of 2007.  This is clearer in the Bitbucket statistics[1]:  https://bitbucket.org/nuttx/nuttx/addon/bitbucket-graphs/graphs-repo-page#!graph=contributors&uuid=4430abf9-a782-49ff-bd16-bc1df696048e&type=c&group=weeks  which goes all the way back to the day the project was created.
   
   I think that is because prior to GIT, authors were NOT referenced by email address, but rather with some UUID.
   
   [1]Note you have to be logged into Bitbucket to see the statistics there.
   
   
   


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