On 1/31/25 11:01 AM, Soft Works wrote:
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From: ffmpeg-devel <ffmpeg-devel-boun...@ffmpeg.org> On Behalf Of
James Almer
Sent: Friday, January 31, 2025 4:45 PM
To: ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org
Subject: Re: [FFmpeg-devel] Democratization work in progress draft v2
Past involvement, including long-past involvement, is not only
past, it
is both indication of knowledge about the project and prediction of
future involvement.
For that reason, I believe that if this plan goes forward, it
should
include all past involvement, but possibly with the condition that
the
involvement continues presently.
How about a quadratic attenuation of past commit counts, so that older commits
count less than more recent ones?
Such quadratic metrics tend to be such that for currently active
contributors, it roughly correlates with square root of commit count
(which is an increasing function) and therefore isn't meaningfully
different.
A similar thing was discovered in the N-papers-cited-N-times-each metric
which was popular at one point in academia as an alternative to citation
count. It turned out to maximize the area of an axis-bounded square when
contributions were plotted, which is why for naturally occurring data it
correlated pretty well with the square root of total citation count.
While this isn't an entirely analogous situation, most contributors who
are active have been active since they started contributing, so this
doesn't do a whole lot except to pick out people who used to be active
and then stopped and then started up again.
- Leo Izen (Traneptora)
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