lib/response.js showed the highest ownership concentration in an analysis of Express's git history #7309
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built a CLI called git-archaeologist that analyzes ownership concentration from git history. I ran it across 26 major OSS projects as a benchmark — Express was one of them.
lib/response.js came up as the most concentrated file in the Express codebase — 128 changes, 53 authors, with a large share of historical commit activity concentrated among a small number of contributors.
Full report with methodology and raw data:
https://sushantverma7969.github.io/git-archaeologist/
Demo video (2 min, running git-arch on Express):
https://youtu.be/NKVN00Dj6YA
I'm aware the metric measures historical commit activity concentration, not who actually understands the code — that limitation is documented in the report.
Curious whether this matches what you observe maintaining Express, and where the methodology is wrong.
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