On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 12:40 PM, Daniel Shahaf <[email protected]> wrote: > Rob Weir wrote on Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 12:03:08 -0400: >> An interesting new article in Lwn.net by Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier. >> >> https://lwn.net/Articles/458974/ >> >> There are a couple factual errors there in describing our project: >> >> 1) The article claims that we have not added any committers since the >> project started >> >> Obviously this is not true. It is easily to verify by looking at our >> recent reports: >> >> http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/September2011 (72 committers) >> >> http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/August2011 (71 committers) >> >> http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/July2011 (56 committers) >> >> You don't need to take off your shoes and count on your toes to see >> that we have more committers than when we started. >> > > How many of the 15 committers added in August submitted a patch (or got > a patch they had sent applied) during that timeframe? >
I don't think I need to explain to you how having source control and issue tracking migrated over to Apache is a prerequisite for processing patches. Or are you saying that this is a point of a confusion that a journalist might have who is not familiar with how development works? -Rob
