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Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] GitHub sandbox for the DPDK community
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On Fri, May 01, 2015 at 01:36:58PM -0700, Matthew Hall wrote:
> On Fri, May 01, 2015 at 10:59:32PM +0300, Aaro Koskinen wrote:
> > Projects like GCC, GLIBC, binutils, busybox, etc or what?
> > 
> > A.
> 
> You'll notice all of these are low-level UNIX hacker sorts of tools mostly, 
> with the partial exception of busybox. But even that is mainly for embedded 
> use. It doesn't mean I don't think they're good and useful, but it does limit 
> the possible size of the community in my view.
> 
> Since we are talking about how to get the largest widest community possible 
> for DPDK, it could require doing things a bit differently from how many 
> low-level tools have historically done things.
> 
Why?

Contributors to GCC: ~600 (based on svn) review
Contrubutors to glibc : ~300 (based on git) review
Contributors to binutils: ~600
Contributors to busybox: ~300

Contributors to DPDK: ~125

Now I grant you that dpdk is a newer, much more niche project, but its
disingenuous to state that we _have_ to do things differently to reach a wider
audience.  We can, but its by no means a prerequisite to gainining a wider
audience.