Fog Heen: Resigning as a Debian systemd maintainer [LWN.net]

Fog Heen: Resigning as a Debian systemd maintainer

Posted Nov 23, 2014 22:51 UTC (Sun) by csamuel (✭ supporter ✭, #2624)
In reply to: Fog Heen: Resigning as a Debian systemd maintainer by xxiao
Parent article: Fog Heen: Resigning as a Debian systemd maintainer

Please cite the sources and numbers backing up your assertion that "most OSS developer are paid full-time employees".

All the best,
Chris

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Fog Heen: Resigning as a Debian systemd maintainer

Posted Nov 24, 2014 18:48 UTC (Mon) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389) [Link]

Well, there are a few things which need tweezed apart even in the assertion here. Do we mean developers by body count? Code output (not that measuring this isn't already fraught with various issues)? How do you split personal contributions from on-the-job contributions? Does *any* full-time employment put them into the category, or just ones which have some FOSS duties, or does it have to be 100% of the time is for FOSS? For some combination, things are, to me, leaning towards a definite yes (any full-time paired with either body count or code output), but others aren't so clear-cut.

So while numbers would be nice, let's get first make sure we know what we're asking for :) .