DMD backend quality (Was: Re: DIP 1031--Deprecate Brace-Style Struct Initializers--Community Review Round 1 Discussion)

[Walter Bright]

On 2/17/2020 6:07 PM, Basile B. wrote:
> On Monday, 17 February 2020 at 19:35:53 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>> On 2/17/2020 10:45 AM, jxel wrote:
>>> That doesn't mean they will get merged. There's lots of PR open that have 
>>> been open for years without any sort of feedback. Why would anybody waste 
>>> their free time to simply have their work ignored?
>>
>> The dmd compiler itself has 24,254 commits from 195 contributors.
>>
>>   https://github.com/dlang/dmd
>>
>> Phobos has 17,927 commits from 367 contributors.
>>
>>   https://github.com/dlang/phobos
>>
>> Druntime has 7,023 commits from 198 contributors.
>>
>>   https://github.com/dlang/druntime
> 
> This gives somewhat an idea but actually these numbers, as provided by GH, are 
> innaccurate, they don't include people who have left GH. If you really want to 
> give numbers then you must use git to find the unique authors by email.

When it says 195 contributors, what's inaccurate about that? Are you saying some 
are counted multiple times because they submit PRs under multiple aliases?