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> Many people had contributed their efforts to the Redis project for free It's worth noting that the bulk of the code was written by antirez with only ~12 othe
by hgs3 2y ago
> Many people had contributed their efforts to the Redis project for free
It's worth noting that the bulk of the code was written by antirez with only ~12 others exceeding 100+ commits [1]. And if you continue scrolling the number of commits-per-user drops off fast. It's striking given how famous the project is.
[1] https://github.com/redis/redis/graphs/contributors https://github.com/redis/redis/graphs/contributors
- softwaredoug 2y agoIt goes far beyond the actual codebase to the long tail of supporting projects, conference talks, blog posts, etc
- dig1 2y agoAgree. Writing code is (TBH, only a tiny) part of the project - creating packages for different OSes and distros, testing, filling bug reports, promoting project, writing tips and ticks, articles... Many projects remain unpopular not because the authors aren’t actively maintaining them but because these essential components are missing.
- reconditerose 2y agoAs one of those 12 other people, number of commits is not a good metric in this context. When you have a single maintainer, like antirez was for a long time, he could commit 10+ commits for a single small feature but I needed to get someone else to approve my commit before merging.