OK. I'll buy it. Than based on what we can claim that our community is indeed fast-growing, what numbers we should use? If we have such numbers, could somebody provide a comparative statistics during past 6 months?
Could it be over-all number of users on mailing lists? How many subscribed/unsubscribed during certain period? Number of downloads may be? On Thu, 2007-02-01 at 09:55 -0800, John Plocher wrote: > Erast Benson wrote: > > I didn't say we are dead community. :-) And I said almost zero > > participation from outside of Sun > > > What are your expectations here? That at some point in the > future, more than 25% of the contributions will come from > outside of Sun? >50%? >75%? 100%? > > This community is intended to be inclusive of both Sun and non-Sun > engineers; in my mind, it would be a disaster to have an OpenSolaris > community where there was little or no Sun engineering presence. > That would turn OpenSolaris into one of those worthless "toss it > over the wall and see if it survives" debacles. > > My expectations are pretty modest: > > I don't expect individual contributers to take on huge projects, > though there will always be exceptional people who do the > impossible - and make it look easy! > > I expect lots of people (inside and outside of Sun) to take on > and be successful at simple things - bugfixes, low hanging > fruit, etc. > > Being pragmatic, I believe that it takes a long term commitment > (meaning money and people) to do non-trivial projects, and as such, > implies corporate backing - Sun's or Apple's or .... > > All open source efforts stratify into tiers: Core leaders, Core > "doers", Peripheral "doers", Talkers and Watchers. OpenSolaris > is no different. > > I expect that this will show itself in the beginning as > > Most community members will be content to sit back and watch > Some will be vocal and want to be heard on the various mailing lists > A few will get involved with the code > Fewer still will actually submit bugfixes and simple RFEs > A relative handful will get involved, start taking charge, make waves, > etc > A dozen or less will succeed and become leaders. > > This isn't "just" an OpenSolaris viewpoint; it holds true for all the other > open source efforts I am or have been involved with as well. > > -John > > > _______________________________________________ > opensolaris-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > -- Erast _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
