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Same. I said to myself, "Wow these people have taken good care of themselves to be contributing to Blender at 92 and 93 years old!" But then I saw 700 and had a split take.

It would be strange to say "Here are the names and ages of all of our contributors" As if Age is the most important factor.

They should put the number of patches in grey under the name and say X patches instead of putting the number of patches in parenthesis next to the name.

It's a piece about commuters. I suspect it's the number of commits attributed to that commiter.

*committer

Same here.