On 4/25/14, 10:20 AM, Marc MERLIN wrote: > On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 04:47:04PM +0200, David Sterba wrote: >> On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 04:14:56PM -0700, Marc MERLIN wrote: >>>>> Netgear uses BTRFS as the filesystem in their refreshed ReadyNAS line. >>>>> They apparently use Oracle's linux distro so I assume they're relying on >>>>> them to do most of the heavy lifting as far as support BTRFS and >>>>> backporting goes since they're still on 3.0! They also have raid5/6 >>>>> support so they are probably running BTRFS on top of md. >>>>> >>>> >>>> Yes, and any contributions you see coming from me so far, come from >>>> NETGEAR. I've been using my gmail account because I can't make our >>> >>> Thanks. >>> https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Contributors >>> Updated :) >> >> There are lots of contributors with the same small amout of patches >> contributed and are not listed there. This is first time I hear about >> Netgear being a contributor and it looks strange to see that name among >> the major contributors. >> >> If there's demand to list all the minor contributors, then let's add a >> separate section, otherwise I'm going to remove the entry. > > Mmmh. So I'm not Jon Corbet who has all those fancy honed scripts + non > trivial time he spends doing this by hand. > > That said, my goal was not to say which company gave the most > contributions and try and rank them. > Honestly, right now any company that is using btrfs and contributing to > it is a great thing in my book. > I'm not even a fan of counting number of lines or frequency of patches. > How do you compare someone sending easy cleanup patches vs someone who > spent a month tracking down a file corruption problem no one could find > nor fix, and sends a 3 line patch to fix it in the end?
Just for the record, I certainly didn't mean that my git patch-counting example was the be-all and end-all of "contribution accounting" - it's just one metric of many; not meant to be inclusive, but might help to avoid missing people or companies who have contributed in this particular way. -Eric -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
