Le mardi 19 octobre 2010 à 09:06 +1300, Graham Lauder a écrit : > On Tuesday 19 Oct 2010 04:27:29 Frank Griffin wrote:
> > In FOSS, it doesn't. If enough people agree with your objective, you > > may find that you have enough critical mass to produce a derived distro > > with a face and personality which matches your objectives. > > This is one of the interesting elements of FOSS marketing that I've talked > about in the past. That Marketing department, which in a corporate world > always has the ear of management more so than the Development people simply > because of human interaction capabilities, has to turn it's focus inward. > The > problem is, an one I've been trying to avoid here, is that it becomes insular > to the exclusion of all else and then the community stagnates and spirals > into > irrelevancy. For the community to grow there has to be a dynamism, (and I'm > talking grow in terms of the community of contributors) Userland is the big > billboard of that dynamism. Ubuntu for all it's faults and annoyances has > taught us one thing, high visibility in Userland attracts contributors. Then what Fedora and Debian has taught us ? Because AFAIK there is also lots of contributors in Fedora, as there is in Debian, and I think they didn't really choose the high visibility path to get them. So I do not think we can really find a direct correlation between "ubuntu has lots of users" and "there is lots of contribution". My own opinion is that Canonical pay 5 people full time to take care of the community growth ( http://www.jonobacon.org/2010/07/26/the-five-horsemen/ ), and that's the main reason for contribution from outsiders. The same goes for Fedora and Redhat ( http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/CommunityArchitecture ) -- Michael Scherer
