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I find it interesting that, in the third graph (commits/dev), the Mozilla line gets a dip to about half its previous value as the Chromium line shows up, somewh
by mook 11y ago
I find it interesting that, in the third graph (commits/dev), the Mozilla line gets a dip to about half its previous value as the Chromium line shows up, somewhere around mid-2008. Post-dip the jitter also seems to decrease.
- dao- 11y agoGoogle used to pay/employ a number of people working at Mozilla who were then pulled to work on Chrome. This includes former Firefox lead developer Ben Goodger, for instance. I think Mozilla was still using CVS at that time, so the loss of a few central devs doing lots of commits for others would explain the drop.
- mook 11y agoWouldn't that increase the commits/dev metric, if there are fewer (highly active) devs, but a reasonably similar amount of commits? Having it drop would actually mean that the Google folks had a higher-than-average number of commits of their own code (as opposed to committing for other people). Unless, of course, they were committing for folks that also worked on Mozilla without their own commit access, and that second group went away.