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Re:FFmpeg's future and resigning as leader by hokkos on Friday July 31, 2015 @11:16AM (#9982273)
Even without if you remove him and the common committers between the 2 projects the 9 first top committers of FFMPEG commit more than top 2 of libav : https://lwn.net/Articles/650816/
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Re:FFmpeg's future and resigning as leader by jbk on Friday July 31, 2015 @11:25AM (#9982329)
That's incorrect. Those statistics include all the MERGE commits from libav into FFmpeg, which happen several time per day. Michael did not do 1500 commits more than the second commiter.
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Re:FFmpeg's future and resigning as leader by paulmd on Friday July 31, 2015 @12:07PM (#9982543)
No, those statistics exclude merge commits . Here's the command that generated those outputs [1]:

  git shortlog -ns --no-merges v11..HEAD | head -n15

  git shortlog -ns --no-merges n2.4..HEAD | head -n15
[1] http://marker.to/smY3KT

Michael Niedermayer is an EXTREMELY prolific dev who has been banging out FFMPEG code for more than a decade. It's by no means a one-man show, many other devs make large and valuable contributions - but in relative terms Niedermayer absolutely dominates FFMPEG, both in terms of personality and code output.

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Re:FFmpeg's future and resigning as leader by Manozco on Friday July 31, 2015 @12:25PM (#9982650)
This remove only merge commits, but the commits themself are from libav
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Re:FFmpeg's future and resigning as leader by moomin on Friday July 31, 2015 @01:00PM (#9982851)
But they'll have the correct author against them, no?
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