Dear Lazyweb,
Does anyone have any graphs / charts / data comparing each distribution and the amount of commits their respective members did upstream for a project (ie like gnome)? I have seen the kernel ones with Redhat and Novell taking the lead in contributions, didn’t know if their were similar ones for any user space projects?
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#1 by LaserJock on June 3, 2008 - 2:14 pm
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I would think that it would be very difficult to come up with anything remotely quantitative. For each commit to an upstream you’d need to be able to map that contributor to the distros. Note with the kernel results I believe they are only looking at companies, not projects so i.e. you get a number for Red Hat and Novell not Fedora or openSUSE which would be the Ubuntu equivalents. You could try to get the numbers for Canonical but I believe most Canonical employees use their @ubuntu.com addresses when contributing so it’s more difficult than just grepping for @redhat.com for instance. Also I don’t know if getting Canonical’s numbers are really all that interesting in comparison to Ubuntu’s.
#2 by martin on June 4, 2008 - 1:12 am
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I think think direct commits are a useful metric. In most projects the distro people will not do enough to even have direct commit rights. So you’d need to count submitted accepted patches or commits and that’s getting quite hard to count. And of course commits are not a good productivity metric anyway.