On Nov 27, 2012, at 8:07 PM, Michael McCandless <luc...@mikemccandless.com> wrote: >> There are almost like 40 committers. Most with day jobs, families, hobbies, >> etc. Many, many, many that are not paid to commit your patches. > > 40 committers perhaps on paper but precious few are active and even > fewer review & commit new patches.
That is also the nature of open source. People get involved and over time move on all the time. Some duck back in here and there, others fade off into the night. You generally have many transients and an active smaller core. I think this is not at all uncommon. Even then, getting contributors patches in is not normally going to be a high priority unless it happens to match a committers (or their employers) itch. You have a lot of people donating a bit of time as they can in their busy lives - they will scratch their own issues and have little time for things not related to their itches, you have a few others that are paid to work on this stuff, but that generally involves specific company oriented goals - not just committing feature xyz because someone happened to put up a patch. And many of those guys have other duties beyond working on Lucene/Solr. We should work hard on committing more patches the same way we should donate more money to charity - it's a nice sentiment, you can't fault it, but it's up against reality. It's really just the nature of Open Source. We could have 100 committers and it probably wouldn't even come close to doubling the amount of 3rd party patches that get committed. It wont scale that way IMO. You will get a bunch more transients, a bunch more guys paid to work on specific things, and if you are lucky, perhaps a couple that donate their time for the general good of committing others patches. - Mark --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@lucene.apache.org
