Andrew Coppin <andrewcop...@btinternet.com> writes: > Ivan Lazar Miljenovic wrote: >> Andrew Coppin <andrewcop...@btinternet.com> writes: >> >>> (Unless you're suggesting that I should try to actually *fix* these >>> things. The way I figure it, if an army of developers who are already >>> experts on the subject haven't been able to fix it yet, it must be >>> extremely hard, and so there's no way *I* can fix it.) >>> >> >> Or maybe they have other things to do (e.g. Duncan is working, finishing >> off his PhD thesis and answering queries like this; when do you expect >> him to get any hacking done? :p). >> > > I wonder... How many people are actually working on Cabal? > > When I first started using Haskell, I got the impression that there > were hundreds, maybe even thousands, of developers working on > GHC. (After all, how else could you write such a huge codebase in less > than two centuries?) But now it appears the number of active > developers is nearer to 3. This is obviously a jaw-droppingly tiny > number of people to be working on such a gigantic piece of > software. If it's really true, it's amazing anything ever gets done at > all! > > So now I wonder about Darcs, Cabal, Haddock, Hackage, and all those > other big projects. Do they really have a bazillion people working on > them? Or is it just two blokes in their spare time? (And, more > importantly, how do you find out?)
Seeing as how we don't have a bazillion people using Haskell... ;-) My understanding is that Cabal, Haddock, Hackage (as in the web infrastructure, etc.) and GHC all have a small core team of about 3 developers and a whole bunch of people who have committed patches at one time or another and might even do so on an irregular basis. Darcs seems to have a larger team behind it. -- Ivan Lazar Miljenovic ivan.miljeno...@gmail.com IvanMiljenovic.wordpress.com _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
