Daniel Veditz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Gervase Markham wrote:
> >
> > > Does anyone have stats for how many people are working
> > > on mozilla.
> > >
> > > How many from Netscape ?
> > > How many from other companies, and which ?
> > > How many "home" coders ?
> >
> > There is a URL for stats of "external" contributions - I believe around 50
> > different people make CVS checkins each month. This doesn't include all
> > the volunteers doing QA, website maintenance, answering questions etc. of
> > course. However, I can't remember where it is offhand...
>
> Nor does it count folks who don't have direct CVS access but still attach
> patches to bugs (they are usually mentioned in CVS check-in comments).
>
Actually, it does try to count those folks by noticing email addresses
in the cvs checkin comments. Note that this isn't the best heuristic
in the world, since it inadvertantly catches some reviewers too.
http://webtools.mozilla.org/miscstats/
It's also worth pointing out that these statistics don't necessarily
answer the same questions that they used to, now that Netscape has
hired a fair number of once-independent regular Mozilla contributors.
Dan
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