Promoting the use of Mercurial; was: Re: gnome dvcs survey results
Theodore Tso
tytso at mit.edu
Fri Jan 9 21:40:24 UTC 2009
On Fri, Jan 09, 2009 at 09:05:36PM +0100, Arne Babenhauserheide wrote:
> This makes the bzr dev community look still smaller: 4 main
> committers who do the brunt of the work (but all 4 very actively
> committing):
>
> > = Bazaar churn =
> > john -bei- arbash-meinel.com 245992
> > mbp -bei- sourcefrog.net 217457
> > robertc -bei- robertcollins.net 186870
> > Aaron Bentley 165001
> > andrew.bennetts -bei- canonical.com 68116
> > v.ladeuil+lp -bei- free.fr 42179
> > ian.clatworthy -bei- internode.on.net 35963
> > bialix -bei- ukr.net 9809
>
> Does anyone know who of those is paid by Canonical?
It looks like all of them are paid by Canonical. The following are
members of the Private Launchpad group "canonical-bazaar" which is
described as "Canonical Bazaar staff (private team)[1]:
Andrew Bennetts
Elliot Murphy
Ian Clatworthy
John A Meinel
Jonathan Lange
Martin Pool
Michael Hudson
Robert Collins
Tim Penhey
So of the top 4 committers, all but Aaron Bentley is a mamber of
"canonical-bazaar". Aaron Bentley, as well as Martin Pool, however,
are on the "Canonical Launchpad Developers" list[2], which I presumem
means that he's paid by Canonical to work on Launchpad. (Launchpad
still being closed-source, this seems a good bet).
So I repeat my earlier question; if Mark Shuttleworth were to ever
pull the plug on bzr, would it have a viable development community? I
suspect no one knows for sure, but it seems very likely its rate of
development would go down...
- Ted
[1] https://launchpad.net/~canonical-bazaar/+members
[2] https://launchpad.net/~launchpad/+members
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