On 12:53 Fri 13 Apr , Patrice Dumas wrote: > On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 02:14:05PM -0500, Jason Hsu wrote: > > I've been curious about the size of the teams behind Linux distros. > > I met a Gentoo developer at the Minnebar conference last Saturday > > and learned that there are about 200 people working on Gentoo and > > about 1000 people working on Debian. I understand that the > > productive Linux Mint team is surprisingly small, though I have no > > idea how small. (50? 20? 10? Even fewer?) > > > > How big are the teams that you're familiar with? > > It is not clear to me whether the right number is the number of people > or the number of 'worked' hours, which ought also be separated by > productivity levels. If the distribution of those numbers are constant > over distros, then counting people is right, but otherwise it could be > quite misleading (depending on what you plan to do with those numbers, > of course).
The number of people might be a better measure of how much of the community is interested in contribution than of how much work is really going into a distribution, for all the reasons you mention. But then you get into other issues like ease of becoming a committer across different projects, etc. -- Thanks, Donnie Donnie Berkholz Council Member / Sr. Developer, Gentoo Linux <http://dberkholz.com> Analyst, RedMonk <http://redmonk.com/dberkholz/>
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