Re: GitHub sandbox for the DPDK community

["Wiles, Keith" <keith.wiles-ral2JQCrhuEAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>]

On 5/2/15, 6:40 AM, "Neil Horman" <nhorman-2XuSBdqkA4R54TAoqtyWWQ@public.gmane.org> 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?
>> > 
>> > 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

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.
>