[gnuastro-devel] [task #14290] genastro script for AUTHORS - weight order by numbers of lines edited?

[Mohammad Akhlaghi]

Follow-up Comment #1, task #14290 (project gnuastro):

This is an intriguing suggestion, but the issue you raised about the
quantification by line number is also not negligible. 

Its certainly worth discussing, so thanks for opening this task as a forum...

On the other side of the spectrum to your nice example, are changes that are
simply done over many files/lines with a simple `grep' (on Emacs), like commit
bcd59d5b
<http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gnuastro.git/commit/?id=bcd59d5b8886> (`%zu
instead of %lu for printing size_t'), implementing it didn't take more than a
few minutes, or require much thought. But only counting line numbers, it would
be considered as a major change (57 files changed, 465 insertions, 465
deletions). 

In terms of credit, I would give much more credit to that one-byte example you
gave than this commit. Vladimir has made many such great corrections for
example, (like this commit
<http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gnuastro.git/commit/?id=1a6670b82337>, or
this one
<http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gnuastro.git/commit/?id=2135819bbd1d>).

Counting commits, we would at least give both these two examples equal credit
and also encourage developers to break up the commits into managable fragments
as much as possible. But when counting lines, the developers might make a
single commit with a large number of changes (sometimes on contextually
different things).

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