List of Authors in aboutdata.cpp

[David Bryant]

On Monday, August 23, 2021 4:36:27 PM CDT Ingo Klöcker wrote:
> The following repositories are the most important ones that make up KMail:

OK. Thanks, Ingo. I have spme revised statistics. Here's how I got them.

-- I reviewed the list of repos you sent me, and went over the list of repos 
in the PIM group at gitlab. I decided to include 5 more repos than the 27 you 
mentioned. The list of repos I used is attached as "PIMcomponents.txt".

-- I wrote a couple of simple scripts to clone  the 32 repos, then extract the 
"Author:" lines from all 32 git history logs. I'll supply the scripts to 
anybody who wants them.

-- I also combed through the list of authors and other contributors mentioned 
in the Help --> About Kmail widget. There are 29 people credited there who did 
not appear anywhere in the list constructed from "Author:" lines in the git 
log files. I researched those 29 in the git history file I had previously 
extracted from the old https://github.com/KDE/kdepim repository. I found 89 
places where those people were mentioned as having supplied a patch that 
somebody else committed to the repo, back in the days when KMail was using 
svn. That list of people is attached as "AuthorsofPatches.pdf". I lumped these 
29 people in with the automated list mentioned above.

-- Now came the hard part. I sorted the big list of "Author:" lines on the 
name field, and counted how many times each name appeared. I went through the 
resulting summary list several ways, looking for alternative spellings of the 
same name. For example, Ingo Klöcker appears as both "Ingo Klcker" and "Ingo 
Klöcker", and Hoàng Đức Hiếu appears as both "Hoàng Đức Hiếu" and "Hoang Duc 
Hieu".  I may have missed one or two of those; if so, and you notice it, 
please let me know.

-- Where people listed more than one email address, I favored xxx at kde.org over 
all others, to the extent that was possible. I haven't done an exhaustive 
search for the @kde.org addresses. But I did check the 66 people with 100 or 
more authorship lines very carefully.

-- The resulting list is attached, as "AuthorStats.pdf". There are 565 people, 
one organization (OpenUsability), and 4 bots on the list. Well, 
"nobody at localhost" might not be a bot. But "Scripty" is clearly an automaton 
with two names. People credited as "Authors" in the Help --> About KMail 
widget are listed in red, bold; "Thanks To" folks are in blue, bold.

What else? I noticed three people (Sven Lppken, with 4 commits; also Peter 
Kmmel and Richard Lrkng, with one each) whose names appear to be missing some 
vowels. If anybody knows how those three last names should be spelled, please 
let me know.

I'm not going to express an opinion about whose name ought to be on the list 
of authors. I'd appreciate hearing what you think. I now have all the data I 
need to finish the Credits & Licenses chapter in the Handbook. I'll leave the 
widget until later ... when we come to a consensus, or tire of arguing, or 
something.
-- 
David Bryant
Canyon Lake, Texas
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# 70 "projects" in PIM. These 32 are KMail.
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Akonadi
Akonadi Console
Akonadi Data Import Wizard
Akonadi Exchange Active Sync Resource
Akonadi Mime
Akonadi Search
Grantlee Editor
KDE PIM Add-ons
KDE PIM Runtime
KIdentityManagement
KIMAP
kimap2
KMail
KMail Account Wizard
KMailTransport
KMBox
KMime
KPIMTextEdit
KSmtp
KTnef
libkdepim
LibKGAPI
libkleo
libksieve
MBox Importer
PIM Common
PIM Data Exporter
PIM Grantlee Theme
PIM MailCommon
PIM MailImporter
PIM Messagelib
PIM Sieve Editor

# These 38 are not part of KMail.
#
Akonadi Calendar 
Akonadi Calendar Tools
Akonadi Command-line Client
Akonadi Contacts
Akonadi Exchange Resource
Akonadi Notes
Akonadi Phabricator Resource
Akregator
Itinerary
KAddressBook
KAlarm
KAlarmCal
Kalendar
KCalUtils
KDav2
KHealthCertificate
KItinerary
KItinerary Workbench
KJots
KLDAP
Kleopatra
KNotes
Kontact
KontacInterface
KOrganizer
KPeople Sink Backend
KPeople VCard Backend
KPkPass
KTimeTracker
Kube
libgravatar
MyGNUHealth
PIM Calendar Support
PIM EventViews
PIM IncidenceEditor
Sink
Trojitá
Zanshin
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