Tiago Vignatti <tiago.vigna...@nokia.com> wrote: > If I have more motivation I'll try to get some stats comparing different > versions of the server development and maybe other modules. Also, if you are > interested on different kind of statistics I can run more. Suggestions are > very welcome and appreciated (for instance fixing contributor <-> company)!
A year or so ago, someone pointed me out a PhD dissertation in which a researcher studied how relevant were individual contributors to open source projects when contrasted against paid developers. Google didn't help me at all to locate her thesis, but I remember that among the quoted accomplishments was the gathering of evidences in favor of the fact that most architecture-related changes submitted to OSS projects were perpetrated by paid people. I have some resistance to accept the supposition that X could live without the ongoing support of heavyweight companies for they usually hire the developers ultimately responsible for the design decisions which allow the software to evolve. For sure the information contained in git logs don't measure how high-level the changes are being submitted, but it would be nice to devise some metrics, apart from the usual LOC, which could help us visualize the architectural impact caused by the big players. _______________________________________________ xorg-devel@lists.x.org: X.Org development Archives: http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel Info: http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-devel