What Is New in Rails Contributors

Rails Contributors is a website that keeps track of all contributions made to the Ruby on Rails code base. The application tries hard to give credit as accurately as possible, which is something you cannot do with git log . For example, according to Git the author of this commit is "@schneems and @mattt", but you do not want to credit "@schneems and @mattt" right? Rails Contributors automatically splits the string, applies mappings , and gives credit both to Richard Schneeman, and Mattt Thompson. Known typos, emails, and handles are associated to a canonical name to have everything aggregated per contributor rather than scattered in several unrelated listings. Heuristics also capture contributors from commit messages, and even from CHANGELOGs in the diff of commits imported from Subversion. The purpose of all this work is to give credit, provide visibility to your contribu...

Full article: http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2012/12/28/what-is-new-in-r...

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@kuahyeow » 28 Dec '12, 7pm
"@rails: What Is New in Rails Contributors [link]" thanks @fxn !
@vmg » 28 Dec '12, 5pm
Hey-oh! The new Rails Contributors app is now powered by Rugged. Ain't it shiny? [link]
@schneems » 28 Dec '12, 5pm
RT @mattt: @schneems Heh, looks like we caused a bit of a ruckus: [link]
@mattt » 28 Dec '12, 5pm
@schneems Heh, looks like we caused a bit of a ruckus: [link]
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