On Saturday 21 August 2010 14:57:26, Andrew Coppin wrote: > Ivan Lazar Miljenovic wrote: > > Andrew Coppin <andrewcop...@btinternet.com> writes: > >> 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... ;-) > > I don't know - how many packages are on Hackage now? That's a few GB of > source code, right? It didn't write itself. ;-) >
How many people have hackage accounts? Much fewer than a bazillion (I think, how much is a bazillion anyway?). Some of them are *very* productive. > > 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. > > OK, wow. Makes you wonder how anything ever gets done at all, eh? > It's a kind of magic. _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
