Donate to the FreeBSD Foundation

Re:Donate to the FreeBSD Foundation by there on Thursday November 25, 2010 @03:08PM (#1940914)

are you seriously implying that theo is not one of the authors of openssh? or that the other authors of the code don't agree with him on where donations should go?

direct commits, not including ok's on reviewed code:

     jcs@air:/usr/src/usr.bin/ssh> cvs log | grep 'author: ' | sed -e 's/.*author: //' -e 's/;.*//' | sort | uniq -c | sort -n
     cvs server: Logging .
     [...]
      174 provos
      203 itojun
      303 jmc
      368 dtucker
      882 miod
     1098 stevesk
     1234 deraadt
     1417 jason
     1623 brad
     1765 djm
     3827 markus

from the last openssh announcement (http://marc.info/?l=openssh-unix-dev&m=128256356229601&#...):

OpenSSH is brought to you by Markus Friedl, Niels Provos, Theo de Raadt, Kevin Steves, Damien Miller, Darren Tucker, Jason McIntyre, Tim Rice and Ben Lindstrom.

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Re:Donate to the FreeBSD Foundation by cperciva on Friday November 26, 2010 @08:10AM (#1942295)

It depends how you define "author". Personally I would say that at this point OpenSSH has two authors -- markus and djm -- and a number of minor contributors. Looking at 'cvs annotate', I see that markus committed 42.6% of the LOC and djm committed 32.8% of the LOC, while nobody else was higher than 6.3%. Sure, LOC isn't a very good metric, but within a single project, with everybody using the same language, a 5x gap is significant.

If you look at who is currently working on OpenSSH, the numbers are even more dramatic: djm is responsible for over 80% of the LOC committed in 2010.

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