From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Wiles, Keith" Subject: Re: GitHub sandbox for the DPDK community 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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: "dev-VfR2kkLFssw@public.gmane.org" , Aaro Koskinen To: Neil Horman , Matthew Hall Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20150502114059.GB28845-B26myB8xz7F8NnZeBjwnZQMhkBWG/bsMQH7oEaQurus@public.gmane.org> Content-Language: en-US Content-ID: <4A43C192C0FA734B996B5526B4D71546-ral2JQCrhuEAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> List-Id: patches and discussions about DPDK List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: dev-bounces-VfR2kkLFssw@public.gmane.org Sender: "dev" 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. >