On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 12:19 PM, Mark Miller <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Nov 27, 2012, at 8:39 PM, Mark Miller <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> 40 committers perhaps on paper but precious few are active > > I'd like to toss some numbers against that statement after taking a look > at Ohloh. > > For just under 40 committers and the volunteer nature of OpenSource, those > numbers look pretty good! > > I agree, on the other hand look at the size of the codebase and the number of mailing list messages and JIRA issues :) Currently this is unwieldy to maintain and especially to release. The codebase is too large to have people that can commit patches everywhere to it. Its really hard to review and commit patches for areas of the code you don't know that well. >> You generally have many transients and an active smaller core. I think this is not at all uncommon. I think it significantly helps when we have committers that unofficially "take ownership" over certain areas, for lack of a better word. Just meaning they look out for it and know it well and so its easier for them to review and commit people's patches. They are way more productive here than old-timer busy core developers because that area of the codebase becomes their itch. This lets us scale better. So with the codebase this big, I'm not concerned with how many people are "core". I think its even better to have lots of people that look out for specific areas and know them well. I'm interested in ways we can encourage more of this.
