These numbers are not reliable. If you want more accurate numbers use 
3.8 - 3.9 severely suffers from the underscore to colon-equals 
conversion which wrecked havoc on the author initials in the affected 
packages.

Cheers,
   - Andreas

Lex Spoon wrote:
> Oops, my previous message counted authorship in a 3.7u1 image.  Here
> are the counts for 3.9 full the counts.  Congratulations to Andreas
> for surpassing the "undated" entries.  :)
> 
> 
> 7420->''ar''
> 3809->''(undated)''
> 3452->''sw''
> 2231->''stephaneducasse''
> 2193->''yo''
> 2134->''dgd''
> 1947->''RAA''
> 1900->''di''
> 1774->''nk''
> 1685->''sd''
> 1344->''jm''
> 1291->''tk''
> 1018->''al''
> 975->''cwp''
> 959->''md''
> 894->''mir''
> 674->''gk''
> 662->''brp''
> 648->''len''
> 518->''ls''
> 505->''avi''