On Fri, Nov 02, 2007 at 11:40:24PM +0100, Jachym Cepicky wrote: > Hi, > > thanks for this comprehensive explanation. I would like only add this > small comment: In GRASS, more then 30 developers do have cvs write > access. It works. People are respecting each other's work, if somebody > breaks something, the change can be reverted (but this does not happen > too often). It just speeds up the development.
"GRASS (Geographic Resources Analysis Support System) GRASS has been under continuous development since 1982" -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GRASS_GIS You're comparing a 25 year old project to an 18 month old project and wondering why we have fewer developers? If OpenLayers continues to grow at the same rate it has (gaining 4 new developers, and losing one, over 18 months) by the time it's as mature as GRASS, we'll have 57 core committers. Given that, I think the comparison is slightly unfair. OpenLayers is a *very young* project. We're still the newest kid on the block. You can't expect the same from it that you can from a project like GRASS -- that's just an example of unreasonable expecations. In time, the project committers list will grow, as more and more developers become competent enough with the code base to demonstrate the ability to become core committers. Regards, -- Christopher Schmidt MetaCarta _______________________________________________ Dev mailing list [email protected] http://openlayers.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
