From owner-freebsd-advocacy Fri Jan 28 0:38:22 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from sol.cc.u-szeged.hu (sol.cc.u-szeged.hu [160.114.8.24]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD39614D8C for ; Fri, 28 Jan 2000 00:38:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sziszi@petra.hos.u-szeged.hu) Received: from petra.hos.u-szeged.hu by sol.cc.u-szeged.hu (8.9.3+Sun/SMI-SVR4) id JAA18077; Fri, 28 Jan 2000 09:36:44 +0100 (MET) Received: by petra.hos.u-szeged.hu (Linux Smail3.2.0.92 #1) id m12E6ub-000ooKC; Fri, 28 Jan 2000 08:37:49 +0000 () Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2000 09:37:49 +0100 From: Szilveszter Adam To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Another advocacy opportunity Message-ID: <20000128093749.A23717@petra.hos.u-szeged.hu> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org References: <389106DE.7E1761B6@softweyr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: <389106DE.7E1761B6@softweyr.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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