Size of teams behind Linux distros

Andreas Jaeger aj at suse.com
Thu Apr 12 12:44:47 PDT 2012


On 04/12/2012 09:14 PM, Jason Hsu wrote:
> I've been curious about the size of the teams behind Linux distros.  I met a Gentoo developer at the Minnebar conference last Saturday and learned that there are about 200 people working on Gentoo and about 1000 people working on Debian.  I understand that the productive Linux Mint team is surprisingly small, though I have no idea how small.  (50?  20?  10?  Even fewer?)
>
> How big are the teams that you're familiar with?


What exactly defines the size? How many people commit changes per 
day/week/month/year - or in total? Or how many people could make changes?

You really get different numbers...

Andreas
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