[os-infrastructure] State of the onion

[Daryl Monge]

Good question, but I think perhaps the implication may be misleading.

We are not necessarily talking about core dbms work at the level of  
sophistication of our engineers.  There are large areas of the product  
that could use "tweaks".  For example, there is a bug in the  
"createdbms" script in the SVN repository that I have a fix for.   
There is undoubtedly a large number of fixes that are not "core" that  
could be addressed by the community.  (Janitors?)  Have you ever  
compiled Ingres with "gcc -Wall"?  Yikes.  Who needs Klokwork..........

As Andrew mentioned, quantity is not the critical measurement.  If the  
5 percent are researchers, graduate students, or a handful of people  
that making small but important improvements then we have a big win.   
What if we had just one contributor like MySQL has:  Google.

On Jun 6, 2008, at 2:41 PM, Bodo Bergmann wrote:

> So, if we take out Karl,
> how many community contributions have been provided to the Ingres
> codeline within the last 6 month
> (I'm not asking how many did we integrate)?
> And how many changes have been submitted by Ingres staff.
>
> DBMS core developers are not falling from the trees like Java or VB
> developers.
> So, I think the 95% is a good guess.

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