[OpenAFS-devel] 1.6.1pre3?

[Derrick Brashear]

> There is a broader problem as well which is that there is a significant
> concentration of development resources in a very small number of
> organizations.=A0 Your File System Inc. is responsible for funding or
> implementing over 60% of the code contributions to OpenAFS.=A0 Sine Nomin=
e is
> responsible for about 20% and the remaining 15% or so come from
> approximately 30 to 35 other developers or documentation writers over the
> course of a year.

Well, based on presumably commits for the last 2 years. Before that,
the numbers would
have been different (and I haven't calculated them, nor this)

> It is my opinion as a gatekeeper that there can be no long term improveme=
nt
> in the OpenAFS release scheduling until such time as the underlying
> financing problems are addressed.=A0 Until OpenAFS has some resources to
> manage, the gatekeepers will continue to do the best we can with the time
> that is available to us.

And for what it's worth, that's basically the same as it's been since day 1=
.
I always considered myself a bugfixer of last resort, and that's still
how it is.

--=20
Derrick