Companies, Developers Contributing To The X Server (Phoronix) [LWN.net]

Phoronix has dug through the X.org source repository to see where the changes are coming from. "The biggest software company contributing to the X server has been Red Hat, with the second largest contributor being Tungsten Graphics and they had more than three times fewer commits than Red Hat. Novell / SuSE was in third. Combined, these software vendors had made up nearly 33% of the total commits over the past nine years."

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Companies, Developers Contributing To The X Server (Phoronix)

Posted Jun 17, 2008 17:01 UTC (Tue) by trasz (guest, #45786) [Link]

Counting number of commits, what a brilliant idea ;->

http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/Productivity-20.aspx

Companies, Developers Contributing To The X Server (Phoronix)

Posted Jun 17, 2008 17:55 UTC (Tue) by dmarti (subscriber, #11625) [Link]

Aww, that's no fun -- what you really need is a metric that only counts commits that changed the result of a test from fail to pass. Then you can play with the tests and the build, not just the code.

Companies, Developers Contributing To The X Server (Phoronix)

Posted Jun 17, 2008 19:09 UTC (Tue) by aleXXX (subscriber, #2742) [Link]

The daily wtf is unrelated. Here the developers didn't know that they 
will be judged by the commit count.

Of course just counting the commits is just a very rough measure, as 
would be counting the lines of code, but it's a lot better than nothing.

Seriously, the guy who has 30 % of the commits most probably DID most of 
the work, and I guess the 1 % for AMD/ATI and 0 % for NVidia also show 
the right trend.

Alex

Companies, Developers Contributing To The X Server (Phoronix)

Posted Jun 18, 2008 4:21 UTC (Wed) by einstein (subscriber, #2052) [Link]

> I guess the 1 % for AMD/ATI and 0 % for NVidia also show the right trend.

Well, you were close... 

But actually, it was 1.12% for nvidia and 0.34% for amd/ati...

Companies, Developers Contributing To The X Server (Phoronix)

Posted Jun 18, 2008 6:42 UTC (Wed) by aleXXX (subscriber, #2742) [Link]

Ah, yes, these were the numbers for Mesa from the article below.


Alex