I've been using Puppet for a month or two, and plan to keep on using it. I would imagine that as long as there is a not-stagnant community, bugs are being fixed regularly, it is included as part of the distributions I use, and nothing comes along that is a lot better, I'll keep using it. But the chances are relatively slim that I'll ever contribute any code back. I'll always try to file a good bug report or answer questions when they come up. But if I'm paying for support, then all bets are off. If I were paying for support (and with 10 linux machines and relatively simple needs, its unlikely that I would pay for support) all bets are off - I'm not filing any bug reports or helping anybody else.
I don't know how many people would stop contributing if they had to assign their copyrights to Reductive Labs. But that requirement wouldn't stop me. Like Robin mentioned, I would guess over time the number of contributors stays relatively small. If you think about the Mythical Man Month, the number of contributors is always going to be small - just like the percentage of people in an operating room who are surgeons is relatively small. There are lots of non-code tasks that are part of software development. And just for the record, if there was a version of Puppet that worked on Windows clients, I probably would want some sort of support contract for about 100 machines. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
