Re: How many GNU Emacs committers?

[Glenn Morris]

Tassilo Horn wrote:

> Hm, that (or etc/AUTHORS) actually contains 1385 people.  But there are
> some that don't occur in any ChangeLog file (e.g. William Sommerfeld is
> in AUTHORS but in no ChangeLog), and for some its the other way round,
> too...  Ah, ok, the ones that are not in AUTHORS are those that only
> have (tiny change) entries in ChangeLogs.

Everybody is in AUTHORS. It is currently complete up to the 24.3 release.
If you want today's information, then yes, you need to use M-x authors
to regenerate it.