(Disclaimer: I wrote that email)

Oh, don't worry. I know what every single byte in Camping does:

    $ git-rank-contributors -v | head -n 5
    _why <why@whytheluckystiff.net>: 11384 lines of diff
    Magnus Holm <judofyr@gmail.com>: 10122 lines of diff
    Jonas Pfenniger <zimbatm@oree.ch>: 1829 lines of diff
    Manfred Stienstra <manfred@gmail.com>: 168 lines of diff
    Sean Busbey <sean.busbey@gmail.com>: 116 lines of diff

Besides, there's plenty of other (techarch, Bluebie, DaveEveritt, zuk and busbey are the first who come to my mind) who post frequently on the mailing list and know plenty about Camping.

At 4k, it's not exactly huge. It is full of ruby that isn't exactly obvious at once, which I actually think is kind of enlightening.

Yes but Camping was already a community project (quite a while) before _why disappeared.