On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 01:29:29PM +0200, Thomas Novin wrote: > On Mon, 2008-05-19 at 14:00 +0200, Przemysław Kulczycki wrote: > > One of the often accusations against Ubuntu is that it only takes from > > other projects (Debian, Red Hat, Novell/Suse...) and doesn't give back > > anything. Ubuntu should make it more visible for others to see what does > > it contribute to upstream/floss community. > > Red Hat and Novell have websites listing their contributions to free > > software: > > I just read an interesting article on Phoronix and while looking at the > contributors you can see that Ubuntu/Canonical isn't mentioned at all. > > http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=x_server_contributors&num=1 > > (go to page 3,4)
On page 1, Canonical is mentioned. It seems Daniel's contributions were all credited to Nokia, although a portion of them must have been done while he worked for Canonical. Also note they're measuring only the xserver there. The vast bulk of the bugs (and the area I focus mostly) are in the drivers. Bryce -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
