[Ilugc] code contributions for open source software by us
- From: lawgon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (kenneth gonsalves)
- Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2012 15:34:40 +0530
On Sat, 2012-01-14 at 09:39 +0000, Karanbir Singh wrote:
On 01/14/2012 12:45 AM, kenneth gonsalves wrote:
this is not a very good indicator as many teams writing proprietary
software use github.
Because a lot of people uses trains to travel to work and back, does
not
make train travel a business only mode of transport.
I made this remark because it shows a large number of people from
Chennai are members of github, and if an all India search is done, it
will show a huge number from India. Of these users, in my opinion, less
than 5% are contributors to open source. I recognise many names in the
list - some of them are the real good contributors, and most of them are
on this mailing list. I also recognise quite a few guys from firms that
require every developer to get a github id. Therefore the best place to
search for contributors from Chennai is this mailing list. The problem
is to get them to come forward and brag. This is difficult because
except for a few who have made really huge or significant contributions,
the rest of us feel that what we have done or are doing is no big deal.
The only solution is for friends of those who contribute to come forward
with the info.
As for your analogy, if you want to know the number of people who travel
by train to go bird watching, it is foolish to watch the trains and try
to identify the 0.0001 percentage of the travelers who are going to
watch birds - it is far easier to go to the bird sanctuary and find out
the number of people there who commute by train.
--
regards
Kenneth Gonsalves
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