On the Apache server the core team duties are distributed among 20 or so people, but only six to eight are active at any point in time.
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Certainly I get a lot personally out of it as well, there's the recognition and things like that but mostly I try to take that as an opportunity to explain why I hope we could see more projects like Apache out there and why it's a good thing for society.Brian Behlendorf
And, I think that is actually appropriate because I'm really not the world's best programmer, I think it's a good thing that I'm not touching the code.
Brian Behlendorf
Open-source proponents admit that very few people are actually involved in development. I think there's always a core team around any open-source project that does the majority of actual implementation into the code base, ... On the Apache server the core team duties are distributed among 20 or so people, but only six to eight are active at any point in time. Most other projects are somewhere in between and I actually don't think a single project could do well with a huge number of 'core team' members.
Brian Behlendorf
We've made a lot of claims about what we can do, now we issue a challenge to analysts to go and figure out a way to measure it.
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And that is reassuring, to see people who are very positive - five years after the first explosion, the first release of code - is a very good thing.
Brian Behlendorf
So that's my main role right now and really the politics also includes going out and communicating to the world why Apache is a good thing, why companies should be involved in it, and why individuals should be involved in it too.
Brian Behlendorf
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