8. Looking back to the last 3 years,
how do you evaluate FreeBSD's popularity?
Do you see FreeBSD's status declined or getting more popular
among users and developers?
Scott Long John Baldwin:
I think it is growing.
It seems that every time I sit down to talk to other FreeBSD folks
at conferences I hear about another company that is using FreeBSD
as part of a product or service that they sell.
The volume of e-mail going through the lists also seems to be steadily growing,
which can be a bit of a headache when one is trying to keep up. :)
Robert N M Watson:
Likewise
-- more and more companies are adopting FreeBSD as the foundation
for their products,
and FreeBSD continues to see wide-spread success in the web services,
ISP business, etc.
The FreeBSD Project has never really done a very good job
at advocacy or monitoring its user population in a formal way
-- we're software engineers,
and until recently,
we didn't even have a marketing team.
However,
the scope and influence of FreeBSD users
in the computer world is easily visible
from their contributions to the project.
You don't have to look far to find out
that FreeBSD systems process over a trillion dollars
in banking transactions in the US every year,
at the root name servers,
or many of the most significant internet service providers
and web service providers.
One of the things I like to point out about
FreeBSD is the longevity we see in our contributors
-- we are one of the few open source projects
that can demonstrate a code history going back almost 30 years,
and who have active developers who have worked
on that code base for much of that time!
I began using FreeBSD in about 1995,
and joined the developer team in 1999
-- despite being on the project six years,
I consider myself a relative newcommer.
Many commercial software companies would count themselves lucky
if their senior engineers had half that time working on a project.
Daily contributors range from high school students
to tenured university professors,
and our developer base continues to grow.
Scott Long:
The stats that I always look at are: CVS commit volume,
mailing list traffic volume,
bug database activity,
and new committer activity.
9 new source tree committers have been added in the last six months,
which brings the total number up to an impressive 219.
This doesn't count the numerous others who contribute
to just the ports and/or the docs tree.
8. Looking back to the last 3 years,... (スコア:1)
how do you evaluate FreeBSD's popularity?
Do you see FreeBSD's status declined or getting more popular
among users and developers?
Scott Long John Baldwin:
I think it is growing.
It seems that every time I sit down to talk to other FreeBSD folks
at conferences I hear about another company that is using FreeBSD
as part of a product or service that they sell.
The volume of e-mail going through the lists also seems to be steadily growing,
which can be a bit of a headache when one is trying to keep up. :)
Robert N M Watson:
Likewise
-- more and more companies are adopting FreeBSD as the foundation
for their products,
and FreeBSD continues to see wide-spread success in the web services,
ISP business, etc.
The FreeBSD Project has never really done a very good job
at advocacy or monitoring its user population in a formal way
-- we're software engineers,
and until recently,
we didn't even have a marketing team.
However,
the scope and influence of FreeBSD users
in the computer world is easily visible
from their contributions to the project.
You don't have to look far to find out
that FreeBSD systems process over a trillion dollars
in banking transactions in the US every year,
at the root name servers,
or many of the most significant internet service providers
and web service providers.
One of the things I like to point out about
FreeBSD is the longevity we see in our contributors
-- we are one of the few open source projects
that can demonstrate a code history going back almost 30 years,
and who have active developers who have worked
on that code base for much of that time!
I began using FreeBSD in about 1995,
and joined the developer team in 1999
-- despite being on the project six years,
I consider myself a relative newcommer.
Many commercial software companies would count themselves lucky
if their senior engineers had half that time working on a project.
Daily contributors range from high school students
to tenured university professors,
and our developer base continues to grow.
Scott Long:
The stats that I always look at are: CVS commit volume,
mailing list traffic volume,
bug database activity,
and new committer activity.
9 new source tree committers have been added in the last six months,
which brings the total number up to an impressive 219.
This doesn't count the numerous others who contribute
to just the ports and/or the docs tree.
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ごめんなさいです。
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じゃ、早速 Thanks に追加しなければ。
http://tyuu.com/interview_with_freebsd6_developer.txt [tyuu.com]
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