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>This is a rather unusual contribution graph. Most I've seen follow a very stark power law, with one contributor doing over 90% of the work, and the second cont

>This is a rather unusual contribution graph. Most I've seen follow a very stark power law, with one contributor doing over 90% of the work, and the second contributor doing around 5%. This graph shows a lot more collaboration from many people. The development of gcc seems healthier than ever! Is it a sign of health (diverse community) or a sign of illness (no active technical lead, outsiders driving development in fragmented directions)? I don't think you can tell just by looking at the graph.

jordigh 10y ago
With the 2nd most contributions and also the one who wrote the release announcement, it seems that Jakub is the current de-facto leader. The graph suggests that he does not lead alone, though. edit: Upon closer inspection, it appears that Arnaud Charlet is currently the top one because he's committed a lot of Ada code for other people from AdaCore. It would take some teasing out of the GNU changelogs instead of the svn log to figure out who really wrote what. So, looks like Jakub really is the leader.
brandmeyer 10y ago
Perhaps it suggests that the steering committee that GCC has chosen to use is an appropriate governance model for them.