Consider committer data, not just commit author

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source{d} extension to match Git signatures to real people.

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Consider committer data, not just commit author #62

Open smola opened 5 years ago

smola commented 5 years ago

A commit has a commit author and committer. They may be the same or not. It seems we are currently using only author data and not committer.

vmarkovtsev commented 5 years ago

@irinakhismatullina please check this: what do we use to build the graph?

irinakhismatullina commented 5 years ago

Yes, we definitely use commit authors, not committers.

irinakhismatullina commented 5 years ago

I guess it depends on which of them we want to analyze. I don't know very well how big is the difference between the two in practice, but it seems that in theory we are more interested with the authors of the code. And also I'd expect that there were more bots among committers than among authors, but I'm not sure