On Sat, 10 Aug 2002, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 10, 2002 at 12:41:35PM +0300, Shlomi Fish wrote:
> >
> > http://vipe.technion.ac.il/~shlomif/israeli-oss.html
> >
> > (I'm too lazy to put it on iglu.org.il due to the nasty permissions stuff)
> >
> > Any additions are welcome.
>
> Orna says, and I completely concur, that only projects with more than
> one major developer should be included. Smaller projects belong on the
> developer's homepage, not in any semi official list.
I have two problems with this opinion. One is that the distinction is not
always clear. For example, I did 99% of the work on Freecell Solver.
However, its development was affected by many other developers, users and
contributors. You yourself said that most bazaar-style projects out there
had one or two developers doing most of the work. And a recent survey of
SourceForge projects confirmed it and found that the median was 1.
According to this dogma, we will rule at least half the project.
Secondly, there are very important projects out there with one and exactly
one developer. I was the only one who touched the FCFS RWLock's code, but
I think it has an important academic and practical value.
Individualistically yours,
Shlomi Fish
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