[dpdk-dev] GitHub sandbox for the DPDK community
Neil Horman
nhorman at tuxdriver.com
Sat May 2 13:40:59 CEST 2015
On Fri, May 01, 2015 at 01:36:58PM -0700, Matthew Hall wrote:
> On Fri, May 01, 2015 at 10:59:32PM +0300, Aaro Koskinen wrote:
> > Projects like GCC, GLIBC, binutils, busybox, etc or what?
> >
> > A.
>
> You'll notice all of these are low-level UNIX hacker sorts of tools mostly,
> with the partial exception of busybox. But even that is mainly for embedded
> use. It doesn't mean I don't think they're good and useful, but it does limit
> the possible size of the community in my view.
>
> Since we are talking about how to get the largest widest community possible
> for DPDK, it could require doing things a bit differently from how many
> low-level tools have historically done things.
>
Why?
Contributors to GCC: ~600 (based on svn) review
Contrubutors to glibc : ~300 (based on git) review
Contributors to binutils: ~600
Contributors to busybox: ~300
Contributors to DPDK: ~125
Now I grant you that dpdk is a newer, much more niche project, but its
disingenuous to state that we _have_ to do things differently to reach a wider
audience. We can, but its by no means a prerequisite to gainining a wider
audience.
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