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LPC: Fitting into the kernel ecosystemLPC: Fitting into the kernel ecosystemPosted Sep 18, 2008 16:43 UTC (Thu) by mdz@debian.org (subscriber, #14112)In reply to: LPC: Fitting into the kernel ecosystem by alex Parent article: LPC: Fitting into the kernel ecosystem
...which is fantastic, and shows that Debian is a large, mature and relatively healthy community of developers. The most significant group of contributors to Linux, Greg tells us, is still individuals who don't acknowledge corporate sponsorship of their work. Debian has very successfully enabled thousands of developers to contribute, and has grown into a very successful and independent project. I hope that Ubuntu is in such good shape when it's 15 years old. For now, however, Ubuntu has a relatively small developer community which is highly dependent on Canonical. The Debian kernel team is larger than the Ubuntu kernel team and has been active for a much longer time.
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LPC: Fitting into the kernel ecosystem Posted Sep 18, 2008 17:16 UTC (Thu) by alex (subscriber, #1355) [Link]
I agree it's good and I'm not really into giving Canonical/Ubuntu a shoeing over their perceived lack of contribution upstream. The numbers are what they are and if people don't want to feel picked on because of Canonicals poor showing compared to the other major distros then they know what they need to do.
IIRC Google got similarly picked on at last years OLS and I think their stats have improved this year. I'm not sure if it's cause and effect though...
LPC: Fitting into the kernel ecosystem Posted Sep 23, 2008 19:56 UTC (Tue) by chema (subscriber, #32636) [Link]
"IIRC Google got similarly picked on at last years OLS and I think their stats have improved this year. I'm not sure if it's cause and effect though..."
I think Google stats enhancement is called Andrew Morton ;)
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