Emacs Community
The current state of affairs of emacs development
Inspired by On the Graying of GNOME, I thought I’d do some analysis of Emacs and Org’s commit history, to try to gauge the health of their developer communities.
For fun I’ve also thrown in git-of-theseus for the (code) survival plots.
1. Emacs
1.1. Authors
1.2. Commits
1.3. Changes
1.4. LOC survival
2. Org
2.1. Authors
2.2. Commits
2.3. Changes
2.4. LOC survival
3. Methodology
Shell Script
sudo python3 -m pip install git-of-theseus git clone https://github.com/hpjansson/fornalder.git /tmp/fornalder cd /tmp/fornalder cargo build --release # Emacs git clone https://github.com/emacs-mirror/emacs.git /tmp/emacs cd /tmp/emacs git-of-theseus-analyze . git-of-theseus-stack-plot authors.json git-of-theseus-survival-plot --exp-fit survival.json /tmp/fornalder/fornalder --meta emacs-meta.json ingest db.sqlite . /tmp/fornalder/fornalder --meta emacs-meta.json plot --unit authors db.sqlite authors-y.png\ /tmp/fornalder/fornalder --meta emacs-meta.json plot --unit commits db.sqlite commits-y.png\ /tmp/fornalder/fornalder --meta emacs-meta.json plot --unit changes db.sqlite changes-y.png\ /tmp/fornalder/fornalder --meta emacs-meta.json plot --unit authors --interval month db.sqlite authors-m.png\ /tmp/fornalder/fornalder --meta emacs-meta.json plot --unit commits --interval month db.sqlite commits-m.png\ /tmp/fornalder/fornalder --meta emacs-meta.json plot --unit changes --interval month db.sqlite changs-m.png # Org git clone https://code.orgmode.org/bzg/org-mode.git /tmp/orgmode cd /tmp/orgmode git-of-theseus-analyze . git-of-theseus-stack-plot authors.json git-of-theseus-survival-plot --exp-fit survival.json /tmp/fornalder/fornalder --meta org-meta.json ingest db.sqlite . /tmp/fornalder/fornalder --meta org-meta.json plot --unit authors db.sqlite authors-y.png\ /tmp/fornalder/fornalder --meta org-meta.json plot --unit commits db.sqlite commits-y.png\ /tmp/fornalder/fornalder --meta org-meta.json plot --unit changes db.sqlite changes-y.png\ /tmp/fornalder/fornalder --meta org-meta.json plot --unit authors --interval month db.sqlite authors-m.png\ /tmp/fornalder/fornalder --meta org-meta.json plot --unit commits --interval month db.sqlite commits-m.png\ /tmp/fornalder/fornalder --meta org-meta.json plot --unit changes --interval month db.sqlite changs-m.png
3.1. emacs-meta.json
Javascript
{
"name": "Emacs",
"first_year": 1985,
"markers":
[
{ "time": { "year": 1985, "month": 12 }, "row": 0,
"text": "▼ Emacs 17" },
{ "time": { "year": 1987, "month": 3 }, "row": 1,
"text": "▼ Emacs 18" },
{ "time": { "year": 1993, "month": 5 }, "row": 0,
"text": "▼ Emacs 19" },
{ "time": { "year": 1997, "month": 9 }, "row": 0,
"text": "▼ Emacs 20" },
{ "time": { "year": 2001, "month": 10 }, "row": 0,
"text": "▼ Emacs 21" },
{ "time": { "year": 2007, "month": 6 }, "row": 0,
"text": "▼ Emacs 22" },
{ "time": { "year": 2009, "month": 8 }, "row": 1,
"text": "▼ Emacs 23" },
{ "time": { "year": 2012, "month": 6 }, "row": 0,
"text": "▼ Emacs 24" },
{ "time": { "year": 2016, "month": 9 }, "row": 0,
"text": "▼ Emacs 25" }
],
"domains": []
}
3.2. org-meta.json
Javascript
{
"name": "Org",
"first_year": 2008,
"markers":
[
{ "time": { "year": 2008, "month": 4 }, "row": 0,
"text": "▼ Org 6" },
{ "time": { "year": 2010, "month": 6 }, "row": 0,
"text": "▼ Org 7" },
{ "time": { "year": 2013, "month": 4 }, "row": 0,
"text": "▼ Org 8" },
{ "time": { "year": 2016, "month": 11 }, "row": 0,
"text": "▼ Org 9" }
],
"domains": []
}