Comment Re:Very bad (Score 1) 676
So, if you look at some of the factors that he claims "dirty" the data, one is that a lot of management/refactoring of code is done by Sun employees, and another is that a lot of outside contributors find it hard to get commit access and just leave patches in the bugtracker, which Sun employees pick up.
He claims this means that the graph — which shows Sun responsible for the vast majority of all the commits — is inaccurate.
I claim that if the project isn't getting external contributors, or not giving them the ability to get commit access, and it's basically being run by Sun internally, and he has to mention that people leave patches in the bugtracker, that itself is a sign that the project is profoundly sick, more so than any charts can so.
As further evidence that Sun isn't playing well with external contributors and the community, read the tale of the non-upstreamed Calc solver, which Meeks linked to.