The Social Dynamics of the R Core Team

[dangoldin]

http://www.johnmyleswhite.com/notebook/2012/08/12/the-social-dynamics-of-the-r-core-team/

[primatology]

Commits are by no means an accurate measure of developer contribution.

ripley's lead is probably undeniable, but the differences in commits between the next four could be developer preference of code per commit.

[brendano → primatology]

For the questions about relative ranking of contributions, sure. But the entropy results seem reasonable, since it might average over a large number per-developer preferences.