[Openicc] Fedora CM, was: Google Summer of Code . . .

Graeme Gill graeme at argyllcms.com
Thu May 20 20:20:18 PDT 2010


Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
> This an interesting perception of things.  Based on this, libjpeg should 
> not have been used since it lacked maintainership for 11 years. 
> Regardless, hundreds of millions of computers did not seem to care about 
> the lack of maintainership.  Some other quite heavily used libraries 
> also see minimal maintenance. Based on this, I think that your idea does 
> not hold water.

Yep. Low activity is ambiguous. It could mean a project that
no one uses, or it could mean quite the opposite - a mature
project that is well documented, does everything expected of it,
and has few bugs. Low activity for these reasons is actually a
goal to aspire to :-)

Graeme Gill.


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