Re: Does Richard M. Stallman still scrutinize and develop the codes of Emacs now?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Hongyi Zhao <hongyi.zhao@gmail.com>
> Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2021 15:35:37 +0800
> Cc: help-gnu-emacs <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
> 
> On Sun, Aug 15, 2021 at 3:18 PM Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
> > [...]
> > The AUTHORS file lists contributions to Emacs since the very
> > beginning, more than 35 years ago.  Any contributions since then till
> > this day are reflected in AUTHORS, and what the contributors do lately
> > doesn't matter at all.  How far back did you go in your study of RMS's
> > contributions?
> 
> I got some clues based on some digging into the Emacs git repo, as shown 
> below:
> 
> $ git log -1
> commit 3572613550f5d1d0b3392dbc809b32f3989e2981 (HEAD -> master,
> origin/master, origin/HEAD)
> Author: Wolfgang Scherer <wolfgang.scherer@gmx.de>
> Date:   Sun Aug 15 04:02:23 2021 +0300
> 
> $ git log | grep -m1 -A1 -B1 -i 'Richard M. Stallman'
> commit dca743f0941909a80e3f28c023977120b6203e20
> Author: Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
> Date:   Sun Mar 22 03:51:55 2015 -0400
> 
> The most recent commit by RMS was done in 2015.

There's no "statute of limitations" on contributions to Emacs.  Once
you are on the AUTHORS list, you stay there forever.  As it should be,
IMNSHO.

As for RMS's contributions to Emacs in general, try

  $ git shortlog -s -n

and you will see that Richard's contributions still stand head and
shoulders above everyone else, even though he is no longer a very
active committer.