On Apr 6, 2009, at 6:29 PM, Robin Lee Powell wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 06, 2009 at 05:15:38PM -0500, Kyle Cordes wrote: >> >> Paul Lathrop wrote: >>> best for Reductive Labs and the Puppet community as a whole. On >>> the other hand, I also know that the copyright assignment thing >>> is going to make it more difficult for me to make contributions. >>> Although I'm >> >> My impression is that the bulk of projects that use a >> commercial-open-source model, regardless of the licensing, >> generally end up with very few outside contributors anyway. I >> wish it weren't so, but I suspect it is. > > I'll take it a few steps further: the bulk of projects end up with > very few contributors. > > You can talk about the bazaar all you want, but the truth is that > almost all software is written almost entirely by a small oligarchy > at most. Hence my being happy with pretty much anything Luke > chooses on this front.
This is a good point. The vast, vast majority of open source projects have a core set of people who do nearly all of the work, and the majority of projects also have most of their work done by people being paid to work on those projects. Just looking at the ohloh contribtors[1] makes it clear that it's true for us, and once I have a couple more programmers on staff we'll be contributing an even larger share of the commits. Of course, I'll continue to be commited to an open development community, and I've already started pushing internal development conversations to the list, which has been a strange and difficult adjustment, for some reason. 1 - http://www.ohloh.net/projects/puppet/contributors -- To define recursion, we must first define recursion. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Luke Kanies | http://reductivelabs.com | http://madstop.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
