On Fri, May 01, 2015 at 01:36:58PM -0700, Matthew Hall wrote: > On Fri, May 01, 2015 at 10:59:32PM +0300, Aaro Koskinen wrote: > > Projects like GCC, GLIBC, binutils, busybox, etc or what? > > > > A. > > You'll notice all of these are low-level UNIX hacker sorts of tools mostly, > with the partial exception of busybox. But even that is mainly for embedded > use. It doesn't mean I don't think they're good and useful, but it does limit > the possible size of the community in my view. > > Since we are talking about how to get the largest widest community possible > for DPDK, it could require doing things a bit differently from how many > low-level tools have historically done things. > Why?
Contributors to GCC: ~600 (based on svn) review Contrubutors to glibc : ~300 (based on git) review Contributors to binutils: ~600 Contributors to busybox: ~300 Contributors to DPDK: ~125 Now I grant you that dpdk is a newer, much more niche project, but its disingenuous to state that we _have_ to do things differently to reach a wider audience. We can, but its by no means a prerequisite to gainining a wider audience.
