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A bit offtopic, but: are all chromium & V8 team members Googlers? just wondering, chromium and V8 are both open source, but I've never head of any major contrib
by Mahn 14y ago
A bit offtopic, but: are all chromium & V8 team members Googlers? just wondering, chromium and V8 are both open source, but I've never head of any major contributors other than Google itself.
- evilpie 14y agoFrom what I gathered (ie. talking to mraleph) v8 is mostly just Google employees. I can't speak about Chromium. The contributor situation is not vastly different for SpiderMonkey or JSC. I am usually the only contributor, besides 1-3 others that sometimes work on SpiderMonkey. Edit: I think some ports are maintained from people outside Google. It's not really easy to tell, because most people have @chromium addresses.
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- mraleph 14y agoMIPS port is fully maintained by MIPS people. These days they even have commit rights. You can see full list of people and organizations that contributed to V8 in the AUTHORS file.
- apaprocki 14y agoAnyone can contribute to V8. I've had a patch accepted and we are paying Igalia to add the ES6 generator support. The water's fine, jump in!
- evilpie 14y agoJust to hop on the train. This is true for SpiderMonkey as well. Just come visit us on IRC: irc://irc.mozilla.org/#jsapi. We are active around the clock, sometimes even at weekends. We discuss a lot of stuff directly on IRC, so you feel really involved. See also: https://wiki.mozilla.org/JavaScript:New_to_SpiderMonkey https://wiki.mozilla.org/JavaScript:New_to_SpiderMonkey
- alcuadrado 14y agoIt seems that not, Andy Wingo, the guy who is implementing it, works for Igalia, a Spanish company/cooperative.
- evmar 14y agoMany people outside of Google have contributed small patches to both projects. A small set (maybe 20) of regular contributors have given commit access and an @chromium.org account. E.g. http://blog.chromium.org/2008/12/welcome-pawe-to-team.html http://blog.chromium.org/2008/12/welcome-pawe-to-team.html . (A few of those people, including Paweł, were later hired by Google.) The vast majority of work is Googlers.