I did. It doesn't tell what is going on does it? (and you knew that already anyways) For example we all know you are not a developer., neither is David Latapie (whose job is to suck Risto and is now planted in Malla), or othe, or smooth or eizh or Noodle (whose initial miner optimizations were great appreciate, no offence Noodle). That takes out 6 of you from 7 "core team".
You know nothing about me or about where my knowledge, skills, and experience lie. You conflate the amount of work necessary to bring a well thought out feature to fruition with the act of writing the lines of code. Would you, for example, think that a sysadmin who is in a devops role is less valuable than the code monkey he supports? Would you consider the eloquent design from a database architect somehow less worthy than the moron that spits out a few classes for the DAL? Would you argue that the hours of design effort a UI specialist puts into making a wizard intuitive and beautiful should not have his efforts held high against the junior developer who wired up the buttons?
True innovation does not come from code churn. It also does not come from design alone. It comes from straddling the line between well thought through design and the actual implementation. That is predominantly where the core team is and should be focused. It is, therefore, true that the bulk of my work is more architectural than anything else, but you clearly have not actually looked at the github link I provided:
So I guess despite me never claiming that I am a developer, my openly visible commits are there to demonstrate that I am also not incapable of developing.
Unsurprisingly, it is much the same with Bitcoin, where the contributors with the most commits are not always the people doing the bigger picture, design-level efforts:
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/graphs/contributors (pay particular attention to where gavinandresen is in that, for instance).
The worst thing with your obsession with the metric is that it's embarrassingly outmoded. Even Bill Gates famously said: "Measuring software productivity by lines of code is like measuring progress on an airplane by how much it weighs."
Other names come from the forks like the BCN developer amjuarez is listed a contributor.
Let's take
all 17 names and check to see if they're contributing to "the forks", shall we? You clearly seem to be against lying, so let's make sure you're being accurate. Incidentally, where it says "N commit(s)" under the person's name, you can click on it to see their commits on the project. Probably should have done that first before making such a boldly inaccurate statement.
- fluffypony - me, obviously
- mikezackles - contributor to Monero only
- tewinget - contributor to Monero only
- NoodleDoodle - Monero core team
- decred - contributor to Monero only
- Neozaru - contributor to Monero only
- jakoblind - contributor to Monero only
- Jebes - contributor to Monero only
- paybee - contributor to Monero only
- Jojatekok - contributor to Monero only
- amjuarez - original Bytecoin account
- ekimmo - contributor to Monero only
- vertoe - contributor to Monero only
- tomerkon - contributor to Monero only
- rfree - contributor to Monero only, maybe you need to check his commits first: https://github.com/rfree2monero/bitmonero/commits/development
- zone117x - contributor to Monero only (he wrote our pool software that all of the CN coins use, so pay some respect)
- artifexd - contributor to Monero only
And here I thought you were against the "lying shills", only to discover you are one. For shame!
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-picture of fluffypony's beautiful face-
I'd love to see what your contributions have been to, well, anything besides pseudonymously trolling on the Internet. Clearly you lack the self-confidence required to put yourself up on a live video stream and accept...*gasp*...that people will see your face, and that's ok. I understand. I have had friends who have had serious self-confidence issues, and I want to tell you that it gets better. Your life will get better. And when it gets to that point I have no doubt you'll look back on this era and realise that you accomplished nothing by writing nonsense on a forum on the Internet.