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The list of developers, with their respective number of commits, as of Nov 1 2010 [1][2]: Total commits: 15811 Michael Meeks: 2493 (15%) <-- single most

The list of developers, with their respective number of commits, as of Nov 1 2010 [1][2]: Total commits: 15811 Michael Meeks: 2493 (15%) <-- single most impactful developer Rene Engelhard: 1429 (9%) Jan Holešovský: 1233 (8%) Thorsten Behrens: 510 (3%) Caolán McNamara: 10 (0%) Jesús Corrius: 9 (0%) Sophie Gautier: 1 (0%) Olivier Hallot: 1 (0%) Cor Nouws: 1 (0%) André Schnabel (not in git) Charles-H. Schulz (not in git) Florian Effenberger (not in git) Italo Vignoli (not in git) Christoph Noack (not in git) Claudio Filho (not in git) Davide Dozza (not in git) Leif Lyngby Lodahl (not in git) Peter Pöml (not in git) Jacqueline Rahemipour (not in git) Daniel Stoni (not in git) Thomas Krumbein (not in git) some notable members who apparently did *not* leave Oracle: Kohei Yoshida: 1612 (10%) Noel Power: 1574 (10%) Tor Lillqvist: 1203 (8%) Petr Mladek: 1048 (7%) [1]: http://www.documentfoundation.org/foundation/ http://www.documentfoundation.org/foundation/ [2]: http://www.documentfoundation.org/develop/ http://www.documentfoundation.org/develop/

niels_olson 16y ago
Hmmmmmm . . . Losing 35% of your labor force (by commits) is nontrivial, and probably enough that the disenfranchised could mount a considerable counter-presence. However, if I was Larry Ellison, I would think that if another 35% percent of the productive commits are still at Oracle (probably more), I was could backfill the loss with some idle talent, scrub the shops for some folks who have been chaffing under their current management, for example. I'd be betting that product is still quite viable, and for damn sure I wouldn't be giving those renegade sons of bitches the trademark they obviously covet. The view from the vantage of Meeks et al must be quite a bit more complex, and it must seem colder and less safe. Gotta find job. What's the unemployment rate here in California these days? Best of luck to the Document Foundation.
- mmavnn 16y ago
  Meeks doesn't work for Oracle (he worked for Novell, last time I checked). I suspect this is also true of most of the other people on the list. Edit: still Novell, Michael's blog is at http://people.gnome.org/~michael/blog/ http://people.gnome.org/~michael/blog/

niels_olson 16y ago

Hmmmmmm . . . Losing 35% of your labor force (by commits) is nontrivial, and probably enough that the disenfranchised could mount a considerable counter-presence. However, if I was Larry Ellison, I would think that if another 35% percent of the productive commits are still at Oracle (probably more), I was could backfill the loss with some idle talent, scrub the shops for some folks who have been chaffing under their current management, for example. I'd be betting that product is still quite viable, and for damn sure I wouldn't be giving those renegade sons of bitches the trademark they obviously covet. The view from the vantage of Meeks et al must be quite a bit more complex, and it must seem colder and less safe. Gotta find job. What's the unemployment rate here in California these days? Best of luck to the Document Foundation.

mmavnn 16y ago
Meeks doesn't work for Oracle (he worked for Novell, last time I checked). I suspect this is also true of most of the other people on the list. Edit: still Novell, Michael's blog is at http://people.gnome.org/~michael/blog/ http://people.gnome.org/~michael/blog/