[PATCH] devel: script to calculate a list of authors.

[David Bremner]

As an initial heuristic, report anyone with at least 15 lines of code
in the current source tree. Test corpora are excluded, although
probabably this doesn't change much about the list of authors
produced.
---
 devel/author-scan.sh | 11 +++++++++++
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 devel/author-scan.sh

diff --git a/devel/author-scan.sh b/devel/author-scan.sh
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..2d9c4af8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/devel/author-scan.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+
+FILE_EXCLUDE='corpora'
+AUTHOR_EXCLUDE='uncrustify'
+# based on the FSF guideline, for want of a better idea.
+THRESHOLD=15
+
+git ls-files | grep -v -e "$FILE_EXCLUDE" | xargs -n 1 -d \\n \
+                                                  git blame -w --line-porcelain -- | \
+    sed -n "/$AUTHOR_EXCLUDE/d; s/^[aA][uU][tT][hH][Oo][rR] //p" | \
+    sort -fd | uniq -ic | awk "\$1 >= $THRESHOLD" | sort -nr
-- 
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