On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 5:53 PM, Alan Coopersmith <Alan.Coopersmith at sun.com> wrote: > Bonnie Corwin wrote: >> On 05/ 5/09 05:18 AM, ????? ???????????? wrote: >>> When was the sponsor program created? How does this number compare to >>> the number of contributions to other operating systems like Linux and >>> FreeBSD? >> >> I don't know how the number compares because we've been focused on >> better enabling contributions here. > > I don't think you can directly compare to FreeBSD or Linux, since there > is no FreeBSD, Inc. or Linux, Inc. that's in the process of transitioning > a closed/firewalled development model to an open one, with a process for > helping non-employees get contributions in while the transition is going on.
Granted, but the number of individual contributions and the total size of committed changes is only a fraction of the changes at freebsd.org or kernel.org. Does Sun or Opensolaris.org do any statistics? > I'm not sure there is any similar project to compare to - perhaps Apple > with their Darwin open source core to MacOS X is the closest I can think of. Didn't the Opendarwin project die? http://www.opendarwin.info/ does not look very appealing. -- , _ _ , { \/`o;====- Olga Kryzhanovska -====;o`\/ } .----'-/`-/ olga.kryzhanovska at gmail.com \-`\-'----. `'-..-| / Solaris/BSD//C/C++ programmer \ |-..-'` /\/\ /\/\ `--` `--`
