> There is a broader problem as well which is that there is a significant > concentration of development resources in a very small number of > organizations. Your File System Inc. is responsible for funding or > implementing over 60% of the code contributions to OpenAFS. Sine Nomine is > responsible for about 20% and the remaining 15% or so come from > approximately 30 to 35 other developers or documentation writers over the > course of a year.
Well, based on presumably commits for the last 2 years. Before that, the numbers would have been different (and I haven't calculated them, nor this) > It is my opinion as a gatekeeper that there can be no long term improvement > in the OpenAFS release scheduling until such time as the underlying > financing problems are addressed. Until OpenAFS has some resources to > manage, the gatekeepers will continue to do the best we can with the time > that is available to us. And for what it's worth, that's basically the same as it's been since day 1. I always considered myself a bugfixer of last resort, and that's still how it is. -- Derrick _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-devel
