Luca Boccassi wrote: > >Networking is not static, it constantly changes in the kernel, >sometimes in dramatic and incompatible ways.
Sorry, but no. Networking clearly is *not* changing that fast, in software terms. Many old tools still continue to work just fine after a decade or more. >A widely used, well maintained stack with large amounts of >contributors is fundamental for the default choice, because we have >to keep up, as the rest of the world will not sit and wait for us. > >Here's some stats from 'git shortlog --after="2021-12-31" -sn --all'. >In the last ~2.5 years, in netplan.io's github repo, there are only 2 >contributors with more than 100 commits, and 2 with more than 10, and >2 of them are Canonical employees: > > 569 Lukas Märdian > 310 Danilo Egea Gondolfo > 39 Simon Chopin > 38 Danilo Egêa Gondolfo > 11 Robert Krátký > >Same stat, for the same period, for systemd: > > 6650 Yu Watanabe > 5415 Lennart Poettering > 2884 Luca Boccassi > 2772 Zbigniew JÄdrzejewski-Szmek ... >3 companies and one independent in the 4 digits, and too many to be >bothered to check between 10 and 999 commits. I understand what you're trying to say, but that's a disingenuous comparison. systemd is a massive (some would say *too* massive) project with fingers in many pies. How many of those people have touched *networking* bits? -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. st...@einval.com Can't keep my eyes from the circling sky, Tongue-tied & twisted, Just an earth-bound misfit, I...
