Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2000 09:37:49 +0100 From: Szilveszter Adam <sziszi@petra.hos.u-szeged.hu> To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Another advocacy opportunity Message-ID: <20000128093749.A23717@petra.hos.u-szeged.hu> In-Reply-To: <389106DE.7E1761B6@softweyr.com> References: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0001272022260.5515-100000@rac9.wam.umd.edu> <389106DE.7E1761B6@softweyr.com>
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On Thu, Jan 27, 2000 at 08:02:54PM -0700, Wes Peters wrote: > James Howard wrote: > > > > On Thu, 27 Jan 2000, Bill Fumerola wrote: > > > > > 180, now. Hello guys, I am sorry that I can only write to you now when perhaps all this is already obsolete but it's only now morning in Europe:-) So is the above number the number of committers we have? If so, I think this "number of developers" thing might need a bit of rewording, perhaps, to make it look as big a deal as it is. It is true that there are the committers but development is surely done by a lot more people than that. If we write "nearly 200" and the reader happens to have heard of Linux, they might think: Linux has much more volunteers working on that, it must be better. If the reader thinks of big corporations, they might think: but there are many more professional developers for sure at any big company, they must be better. Not everybody knows the (IMHO exemplary) development/support/bug-tracking model we use, it could be a good topic for another article (hint:-) but until it is widely known we must avoid the impression that the whole OS is made just by a couple of die-hards who are desperate for attention... instead the advantage of having this many skilled developers evaluate changes should be emphasized... How about this: "FreeBSD is developed by a large group of volunteers worldwide and nearly 200 skilled developers (the so-called committers) evaluate each proposed change carefully in order to ensure reliability and stability on an ongoing basis." Just my $0.02... Regards: Szilveszter ADAM -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- * Szilveszter ADAM * JATE Szeged * email: sziszi@petra.hos.u-szeged.hu * * Homepage : none * alternate email: cc@flanker.itl.net.ua * * Finger sziszi@petra.hos.u-szeged.hu for PGP key. * * I prefer using the door instead of Windows(tm)... * To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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