From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mga09.intel.com (mga09.intel.com [134.134.136.24]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2389BCC04 for ; Sat, 2 May 2015 15:59:50 +0200 (CEST) Received: from fmsmga003.fm.intel.com ([10.253.24.29]) by orsmga102.jf.intel.com with ESMTP; 02 May 2015 06:59:49 -0700 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.13,355,1427785200"; d="scan'208";a="488453400" Received: from orsmsx110.amr.corp.intel.com ([10.22.240.8]) by FMSMGA003.fm.intel.com with ESMTP; 02 May 2015 06:59:49 -0700 Received: from fmsmsx151.amr.corp.intel.com (10.18.125.4) by ORSMSX110.amr.corp.intel.com (10.22.240.8) with Microsoft SMTP Server (TLS) id 14.3.224.2; Sat, 2 May 2015 06:59:49 -0700 Received: from fmsmsx113.amr.corp.intel.com ([169.254.13.26]) by FMSMSX151.amr.corp.intel.com ([169.254.7.166]) with mapi id 14.03.0224.002; Sat, 2 May 2015 06:59:43 -0700 From: "Wiles, Keith" To: Neil Horman , Matthew Hall Thread-Topic: [dpdk-dev] GitHub sandbox for the DPDK community Thread-Index: AQHQhCdlg1RCyqklQ0KpSAVz9bdNYJ1n4OYAgAAcHYCAAAK0AIAACnYAgAD8lID//9LvgA== Date: Sat, 2 May 2015 13:59:43 +0000 Message-ID: References: <20150501110914.182dcfb1@urahara> <20150501194951.GA25199@mhcomputing.net> <20150501195932.GD595@fuloong-minipc.musicnaut.iki.fi> <20150501203658.GA26543@mhcomputing.net> <20150502114059.GB28845@hmsreliant.think-freely.org> In-Reply-To: <20150502114059.GB28845@hmsreliant.think-freely.org> Accept-Language: en-US Content-Language: en-US X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: x-originating-ip: [10.254.106.246] Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-ID: <4A43C192C0FA734B996B5526B4D71546@intel.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable MIME-Version: 1.0 Cc: "dev@dpdk.org" , Aaro Koskinen Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] GitHub sandbox for the DPDK community X-BeenThere: dev@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: patches and discussions about DPDK List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 02 May 2015 13:59:51 -0000 On 5/2/15, 6:40 AM, "Neil Horman" wrote: >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? >> >=20 >> > A. >>=20 >> You'll notice all of these are low-level UNIX hacker sorts of tools >>mostly,=20 >> with the partial exception of busybox. But even that is mainly for >>embedded=20 >> use. It doesn't mean I don't think they're good and useful, but it does >>limit=20 >> the possible size of the community in my view. >>=20 >> Since we are talking about how to get the largest widest community >>possible=20 >> for DPDK, it could require doing things a bit differently from how many >> low-level tools have historically done things. >>=20 >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 I think the DPDK community can grow the number above and as we move toward VNF/NFV I think it will grow to a much wider group of developers and not a niche project as you stated. We can be much more then some of the above IMHO. > >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. >