Raphaël Hertzog: Looking back at 16 years of dpkg history with some figures
With Debian s 19th anniversary approaching, I thought it would be nice to look back at dpkg s history. After all, it s one of the key components of any Debian system.
The figures in this article are all based on dpkg s git repository (as of today, commit 9a06920). While the git repository doesn t have all the history, we tried to integrate as much as possible when we created it in 2007. We have data going back to April 1996
In this period between April 1996 and August 2012:
- 146 persons contributed to dpkg (result of
git log --pretty='%aN' sort -u wc -l
) - 6948 commits have been made (result of
git log --oneline wc -l
) - 3133612 lines have been written/modified (result of
git log --stat perl -ne 'END print $c $c += $1 if /(\d+) insertions/;'
)
git log --pretty='%aN' sort uniq -c sort -k1 -n -r head -n 5
):
- Guillem Jover with 2663 commits
- Rapha l Hertzog with 993 commits
- Wichert Akkerman with 682 commits
- Christian Perrier with 368 commits
- Adam Heath with 342 commits
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