4.5 has been released
Gehad Elrobey
gehadelrobey at gmail.com
Wed Oct 14 13:58:25 PDT 2015
I always love the email that Dirk sends after new releases. Finally 4.5 has
been released which is a special release that took a lot of hard work, I am
happy that I contribute to this project, unfortunately I had to miss a lot
of the fun in the last month :-)
good job, team
On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 4:43 PM, Rick Walsh <rickmwalsh at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 15 Oct 2015 05:00, "Dirk Hohndel" <dirk at hohndel.org> wrote:
> >
> > Hi everyone
> >
> > It took a while - 2109 commits by git's counting (which is a bit flawed
> as
> > a few commits that went into 4.4.1 and 4.4.2 are counted twice). That's
> > the most we ever had between two major releases (for comparison, the
> > switch from Gtk to Qt (3.1->4.0) was only 1643 commits. And from the
> start
> > of git history to 3.1 it took 2189 commits. So yes, a massive amount of
> > changes went in since 4.4 was released on February 4.
> >
> > Who are the top contributors of code?
> >
> > 753 Dirk Hohndel
> > 327 Tomaz Canabrava
> > 188 Miika Turkia
> > 161 Gehad Elrobey
> > 87 Robert Helling
> > 74 Anton Lundin
> > 68 Grace Karanja
> > 66 Lubomir I. Ivanov
> > 58 Rick Walsh
> > 51 Claudiu Olteanu
> > 45 Salvador Cuñat
> > 36 Guido Lerch
> > 30 Willem Ferguson
> > 27 Joakim Bygdell
> > 23 Jan Darowski
> > 21 Linus Torvalds
> > 16 Guillaume GARDET
> > 14 Sergey Starosek
> > 12 Marcos CARDINOT
> > 11 Sander Kleijwegt
> > 6 Patrick Valsecchi
> > 6 Sebastian Kügler
> > 4 Gaetan Bisson
> > 4 Tim Wootton
> > 3 Henrik Brautaset Aronsen
> > 3 Thiago Macieira
> > 3 Venkatesh Shukla
> > 2 Giorgio Marzano
> > 2 Martin Long
> > 2 Paul-Erik Törrönen
> > 2 pestophagous
> > 1 Jan Mulder
> > 1 Pedro Neves
> > 1 Torstein Husebø
> > 1 Yousef Hamza
> >
> > My numbers are misleading as every pull of translations and many other
> > things end up counting as a commit from me. So Tomaz, Miika, Gehad,
> > Robert, Andton, Grace, Lubomir, Rick, Claudiu, Salvador, Guido...
> > where do I stop the list without just repeating what's above?
> >
> Thank you everybody for making what is a great release. Dirk,
> translations or not, your efforts go well beyond 753 commits.
>
> Yes, your numbers are misleading. I don't think I deserve to be as high
> on the list. But many little commits was your advice.
>
> > Thanks to all of you for your hard work.
> >
> > What's interesting is how many new people are in this list. GSoC
> students,
> > but also quite a few others who haven't contributed before. 35 people
> > sent at least one commit, 20 sent more than 10 commits. For comparison,
> > from the start of Subsurface until the last Gtk release (3.1.1) only 15
> > different developers had 10 or more commits. And of those 15 only 7 are
> > still in the 20 top committers of this release...
> >
> > So what am I trying to say? I think we're a very healthy project.
> >
> A very healthy project. A few months ago I had never written a line of
> c. But I am an avid diver and such a good piece of free software backed by
> a friendly and clever team of developers encouraged me to become involved.
> Then I taught myself to read (part of) the code. To everybody, but Dirk
> and Robert especially, thank you for taking the time to review my
> contributions.
>
> One day c++ and qt might even make sense to me.
>
> > What is under-represented in all the numbers above is the amazing work
> > done by the translators on the team. We have 86 translators on Transifex.
> > We have 20 languages that are complete enough for me to include them. We
> > have a user manual in 4 languages, we have a web page that is (at least
> > the key pages) available in 9 languages.
> >
> > I'm incredibly proud of how far we've gotten. I'm incredibly proud of
> this
> > release.
> >
> > Thanks to all of you for your hard work, your patience, your commitment
> > and most of all for making this fun for me (and hopefully for everyone
> > involved).
> >
> >
> > So what's next?
> > - collect fixes and translation updates for the inevitable 4.5.1
> > - get the mobile app (dare I say apps?) to the point where we can have a
> beta
> > - get started on Subsurface 4.6
> >
> > To many more years of fun developing dive log software
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > /D
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regards,
Gehad
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