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One thing to note is that the Chromium and Mozilla repos host browsers as well as engines, whereas the WebKit and Servo repos host engines only. (The most prominent browser front-end projects are Safari, desktop and mobile, and browser.html respectively, which are hosted in separate repositories.)

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Also Chromium and mozilla-central are monorepos, servo/servo is only part of all the Servo code. There are a bunch of other repos under servo/. We also rely on some major Rust libraries like hyper, but those could be excluded.

This probably doesn't affect the author and commit stats for mozilla-central all that much. The various upstream libraries we use are updated infrequently, in single commits.

I'm not talking about upstream libraries (we have those too, like hyper).

The libraries under github.com/servo are just Servo components (some of them are used by other people, though) which are in different repos. These are maintained by the Servo team and in many cases Servo-specific, for example our HTML parser, CSS parser, URL library, and our layers/geometry logic. Also, eventually, most of our rendering logic.

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