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Gentoo debates recruitment schemesGentoo debates recruitment schemesPosted Jul 21, 2012 17:10 UTC (Sat) by tetromino (subscriber, #33846)In reply to: Gentoo debates recruitment schemes by tetromino Parent article: Gentoo debates recruitment schemes
280 people with commit rights s/280/267/. Turns out I can't count.
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Gentoo debates recruitment schemes Posted Jul 21, 2012 20:49 UTC (Sat) by boudewijn (subscriber, #14185) [Link]
KDE currently has 2626 commit accounts -- http://websvn.kde.org/trunk/kde-common/accounts?revision=... -- and no quizzes. Of course, not all of those are active right now, and there's plenty chaos, but a remarkable amount of productivity and very little disruptive chaos.
Gentoo debates recruitment schemes Posted Jul 26, 2012 19:17 UTC (Thu) by jospoortvliet (subscriber, #33164) [Link]
yup, and openSUSE also manages to get by just fine without such bureaucracies. I won't call it ridiculous outright but it certainly doesn't sit well by me.
Gentoo debates recruitment schemes Posted Aug 2, 2012 12:22 UTC (Thu) by TRauMa (guest, #16483) [Link]
But there is a company behind it, which means full time employees and a hidden bureaucracy layer. Gentoo doesn't have that.
Gentoo debates recruitment schemes Posted Sep 6, 2012 9:34 UTC (Thu) by jospoortvliet (subscriber, #33164) [Link]
True, SUSE and the other companies behind openSUSE mudd the waters a bit here. But Gentoo has corporate involvement too, does it not?
Gentoo debates recruitment schemes Posted Oct 3, 2012 23:51 UTC (Wed) by Duncan (guest, #6647) [Link]
> SUSE ... openSUSE.
> Gentoo has corporate involvement too, does it not?
Not in the same way. While various companies (corporation and otherwise) may provide mirrors and/or donate hardware and the like, and google itself is a notable example of a gentoo downstream (with chromeOS), gentoo seems to be much like the kde of the front-page article, in that it's very much individual developer driven, with companies as such not allowed to get too close.
I believe there's a parallel to debian there. Both gentoo and debian are 100% community distros without a sponsoring corporate parent, as such. The model is quite different from that of fedora/rh, or opensuse/suse, or mandriva (closer to mageia I guess).
It occurs to me that I don't know where arch fits in, community/corporate-sponsorship-wise.
Duncan
Gentoo debates recruitment schemes Posted Jul 22, 2012 11:01 UTC (Sun) by mchandras (subscriber, #81428) [Link]
This number is a bit inaccurate. We currently have 41 open retirement bugs which means that the potential number of active contributors is 227. Plus, we do have some people listed in that list that have no commit access so, again, the number of potential active contributors with commit access is ~220. Then again, not all of them are active. I am quite confident that there are no more than 190 active developers right now in Gentoo. This is not as bad as it may sound, since this number remains constant for the last 3-4 years.
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