lynx/docs/README.metrics

This is a short summary of code metrics showing how lynx has grown from
release to release.  It also shows how the original codebase has
been almost completely replaced by contributors after the release of
lynx 2.4.2 in 1996.  The numbers shown are for lines of text, to keep
the presentation simple.

Release         Current                 Original
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                Text    C-code          Text    C-code  % Text  % Code
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2.4.2            77210   63463          77210   63463   100     100
2.6             112970   92869          58859   49665    52      53
2.7.1           125723  103489          54121   45111    43      43
2.7.2           162228  123130          48979   40655    30      33
2.8.1           191738  133778          37286   33582    19      25
2.8.2           227160  147485          32227   29004    14      19
2.8.3           248646  166833          29035   26346    11      15
2.8.4           310436  168108          28364   25751     9      15
2.8.5           362834  167358          26900   24355     7      14
2.8.6           395237  169885          23380   20801     5      12

Beginning with 2.8.6, the fraction of remaining original codebase is an
estimate, since all C source code is automatically indented using the
indent.sh script.  That added 7216 lines of change since it was not possible
to completely match the hand-edited indention scheme.  Note that the actual
fraction of remaining original codebase is more likely at the lower bound,
e.g., about 8% rather than 12%.

Current lynx releases contain a large amount of text other than C code.
That includes plain text, html, message libraries, custom and generated
scripts.

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Here is a count of contributions (from CHANGES and docs/CHANGES2.8) since the
start of the 2.8 series:

    0.5	AJL
    3  	Al Gilman
    1  	Alexei Anatski
    2  	Alexey Dobriyan
    1  	Alois Maier
    2  	Andrew Belov
    3.5	Andrey A Chernov
    1  	Arkadiusz Miskiewicz
    1  	Arnaud Giersch
    1  	Atsuhito Kohda
   23.5	Bela Lubkin
    1  	Bill Nottingham
    3.5	Bill Schiavo
    2  	Binh Do
    1  	Brett Lymn
   46.3	Brian J Pardy
    1  	Carlton Anderson
    1  	Charles Karney
    1  	Chris Adams
    1  	Christian Hudon
    1  	Christian Jensen
    2.5	Christian Weisgerber
    1  	Crouton
    1  	Dan Jacobson
    1  	David Combs
    1  	David Henderson
    0.5	David Woolley
    1  	Dick Wesseling
  121.7	Doug Kaufman
    1  	Duncan Simpson
    2.5	Eduardo Chappa
    2  	Emanuele Giaquinta
    1  	Eric Brun
   25  	External
  280.5	Foteos Macrides
    1  	Frank Heckenbach
    4.3	Frederic L W Meunier
    1  	Frederick P Herrmann
    1  	Georg Drenkhahn
    1  	George Lindholm
   19  	Gisle Vanem
    1  	Glenn Nielsen
   26  	Hataguchi Takeshi
    1  	Heikki Kantola
    0.5	Helen Sommer
   23  	Henry Nelson
    1  	Hiram Lester Jr
    8.5	Hiroyuki Senshu
    3  	Hynek Med
    0.3	Igor B Poretsky
   84.8	Ilya Zakharevich
    6.5	Ismael Cordeiro
    2  	J Kevin Ternes
    1  	Jacob Poon
   27.5	James E Spath
    1  	Jan Hlavacek
    2.5	Jason F McBrayer
    1  	Jean-Yves Levesque
    1  	Jeffrey C Honig
    1  	Jens Schmalzing
    1  	Jens Seidel
    1  	Jerome Lauret
    0.3	Johannes Hromadka
   35  	John Bley
    2  	John Davis
    4  	John E Davis
    1  	John Hawkinson
    1  	John Nowlin
    2  	Jonathan Sergent
    2  	Julian Coleman
    3  	Karl Eichwalder
    1  	Karl-Andre Skevik
   29.3	Kim DeVaughn
  707.3	Klaus Weide
    1  	Lalo Martins
    1  	Larry Virden
   15.8	Larry W Virden
   11  	Laura Eaves
  344.3	Leonid Pauzner
    1  	Liam Davis
    1  	Marc Huber
    0.3	Marek Kubita
    2  	Masashi Fujita
    1  	Masayasu Ishikawa
    1  	Masayuki Hatta
    1  	Matt Kraal
    1  	Michael Sobolev
    6.5	Michael Warner
    2  	Michel Such
    2  	Mike Castle
    2  	Munechika Sumikawa
    1  	Nigel Horne
    3  	OOPS
    1  	Pat Walsh
    1  	Paul D Smith
   50.5	Paul Gilmartin
    1  	Peter Canning
   26.3	Philip Webb
   14  	Philippe De Muyter
    1  	Rado Smiljanic
    1  	Randall
    1  	Risto Widenius
    1  	Rob Cameron
    1  	Ryan Nielsen
    2  	Scott Bigham
    6  	Sergey Svishchev
    1  	Serhii Hlodin
   15  	Sinan Kaan Yerli
    4.8	Stef Caunter
    1  	Stepan Kasal
    1  	Tadayoshi Okuma
    1  	Thomas Braun
 1613.8	Thomas E Dickey
    5.5	Thorsten Glaser
    2  	Tim Larson
    1  	Timur Birsh
    2  	Tomas Vanhala
    1.5	Ulf Harnhammar
    6.5	Victor Schneider
    2  	Ville Herva
   86  	Vlad Harchev
   37.5	Wayne Buttles
    1  	Wesley Morgan
    0.5	nsh@horae.dti.ne.jp
 3838  	Total