Comments on: How Does the Gcc Organization Work? http://www.airs.com/blog/archives/155 Ian Lance Taylor Sun, 07 Mar 2010 17:12:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: pinskia http://www.airs.com/blog/archives/155/comment-page-1#comment-11719 pinskia Tue, 25 Mar 2008 01:39:12 +0000 http://www.airs.com/blog/archives/155#comment-11719 I would say GCC actually has way more contributers than many closed source projects that are of GCC's size. If we just look at certain sections of GCC; like the C++ fe, there are about 4-5 contributers, this sounds about the size of the EDG (their website in fact says 5 people). This is not to mention the C front-end side of things which brings in about 2 more folks. So saying large number of active contributors is correct. -- Pinski I would say GCC actually has way more contributers than many closed source projects that are of GCC’s size. If we just look at certain sections of GCC; like the C++ fe, there are about 4-5 contributers, this sounds about the size of the EDG (their website in fact says 5 people). This is not to mention the C front-end side of things which brings in about 2 more folks. So saying large number of active contributors is correct.

– Pinski

]]> By: Ian Lance Taylor http://www.airs.com/blog/archives/155/comment-page-1#comment-11324 Ian Lance Taylor Thu, 06 Mar 2008 20:27:27 +0000 http://www.airs.com/blog/archives/155#comment-11324 That was ten years ago. There are rather more contributors today. I just checked the ChangeLog since the start of the year, just for the compiler proper (i.e., not the libraries or the testsuite or the non-C frontends), and there were 92 different contributors. More importantly, as free software projects go, even 27 active contributors is a lot. Sure, there are projects with more. But the vast majority of projects have far fewer. That was ten years ago. There are rather more contributors today. I just checked the ChangeLog since the start of the year, just for the compiler proper (i.e., not the libraries or the testsuite or the non-C frontends), and there were 92 different contributors.

More importantly, as free software projects go, even 27 active contributors is a lot. Sure, there are projects with more. But the vast majority of projects have far fewer.

]]> By: alexr http://www.airs.com/blog/archives/155/comment-page-1#comment-11323 alexr Thu, 06 Mar 2008 19:56:57 +0000 http://www.airs.com/blog/archives/155#comment-11323 Last I checked, "large number of active contributors" wasn't really that large. At the time I counted (1998 or 1999) it was only like 27 people. Last I checked, “large number of active contributors” wasn’t really that large. At the time I counted (1998 or 1999) it was only like 27 people.

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