[avinassh]

this lwn article supports the argument that many cloud providers contributed back to Redis: https://lwn.net/Articles/966631

> It is also hard to reconcile the claims that cloud providers do not contribute with the actual commits to the Redis repository. A quick examination of the commits since the 7.0.0 release using gitdm shows 967 commits over that time period:

    Top changeset contributions by employer
    (Unknown)         331     34.2%
    Tencent           240     24.8%
    Redis             189     19.5%
    Alibaba            65     6.7%
    Huawei             50     5.2%
    Amazon.com         50     5.2%
    Bytedance          19     2.0%
    NetEase            13     1.3%

> Binbin Zhu, of Tencent, is responsible for nearly 25% of the commits to the project. Some of the contributors without a readily identifiable employer surely are Redis employees, but it's clear that the company has not been working alone.

[antirez]

If you go into the GitHub of any of the forks, and check the contribution page, you will see this data is not correct. Probably all my commits are into this "unknown", since I push with @gmail.com account without being part of any organization for most of the time.

This is likely some partial data of some specific fork or alike.

[_msw_]

The LWN article is examining the 976 commits made after the 7.0.0 release. I don't think you had any commits during that time?

As is typical for software projects, early authors will be disproportionately represented in revision histories. I am still the #4 contributor to the Anaconda installer [1] originally used by Red Hat Linux, then RHEL, then Fedora, and others, despite not contributing to the code base for two decades.

[1] https://github.com/rhinstaller/anaconda/graphs/contributors