Stefano Maffulli wrote: > On 11/13/2013 04:34 PM, Colin McNamara wrote: >> Not to be contrarian, but 92% of the commits in Havana came from >> non-individual contributions. The majority of those came from big name >> companies (IBM, RedHat, etc). > > ow, that's harsh. Despite what US Supreme Court Judges may think, > Companies are not people: in the contest of this discussion (and for the > purpose of reporting on development activity) companies don't *do* > anything besides pay salaries of people. Red Hat, IBM, Rackspace, HP, > etc happen to pay the salaries of hundreds of skilled developers. That's > it.
Furthermore, a ever-growing number of those developers actually work for the OpenStack project itself, with companies sponsoring them to do that much-needed work. Those companies have a vested interest in seeing OpenStack succeed so they pay a number of individuals to do their magic and make it happen. A lot of those individuals also end up switching sponsors while keeping their "position" within the OpenStack project. That's a very sane setup where everyone wins. So the fact that, according to your stats, 8% of people working on OpenStack are apparently unemployed (and I suspect the real number is much lower) doesn't mean only 8% of contributions come from individuals. -- Thierry Carrez (ttx) _______________________________________________ OpenStack-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev
