[Python-Dev] contributors survey?

[Antoine Pitrou]

Le mardi 01 mars 2011 à 16:41 -0600, Benjamin Peterson a écrit :
> 2011/3/1 Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net>:
> > On Tue, 1 Mar 2011 16:23:42 -0600
> > Benjamin Peterson <benjamin at python.org> wrote:
> >> 2011/3/1 Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net>:
> >> >
> >> > Hello,
> >> >
> >> > In
> >> > http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-committers/2011-February/001340.html, I was asking whether it would be useful to make a survey of past contributors, as in:
> >> >
> >> >        First, we did a survey of all our past developers who had left
> >> >        the project, asking them why they had left. This was just a
> >> >        free-form survey, allowing people to answer any way they wanted.
> >> >
> >> > (from the quoted article in the thread linked above)
> >> >
> >> > Since I didn't get any answer, I wonder if the idea simply got
> >> > overlooked, or if there's no need at all.
> >>
> >> How do you determine past developers?
> 
> By that I meant how do you determine that they're not actively contributing?

hg log -k "contributor name"

Also, memory helps although it's quite perfectible :)

At worse, we'll have a couple of false positives and we'll have to
apologize to them...

Regards

Antoine.