If the 3.9 team used Berts script it should have preserved the author
and timestamp information; I had updated the script to preserve it..

--- Andreas Raab <andreas.raab at gmx.de> wrote:

> 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''
> 
> 
>