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There is no diff, there is no pressure. Gnome3 is doing just fine in the coming RHEL and in Fedora.
Well, there is a diff, actually. For one thing, fedora doesn't ship Epiphany/Web. I believe there are others as well, but that's the main user facing difference.
As for pressure, I'm not sure you're right about that...
Total denial eh? One of KDE's main distributions are going down the drain, Gnome3 is confirmed for RHEL7 and you guys are talking about Gnome feeling pressure??
Kubuntu has never been one of KDE's "main distributions". Ubuntu has always been far more a "main distribution" for Gnome than Kubuntu has ever been for KDE. There is a reason pretty much no KDE developers use Kubuntu, and it has been that way as long as Kubuntu has existed.
In 1996 when KDE was first announced, it had only a handful of developers and the project could manage the source code without using a revision control system. More and more developers have begun to contribute to KDE over the years, and while there has been some attrition, the total number of active developers working on KDE has been steadily growing. In order to get a pulse from the current contributor community, Simon St. James and Arthur Schiwon produced and plotted two basic metrics that show the continued growth within the KDE community. Active KDE Contributers 1997-2009 (small version)
KDE 4.0 was released at the beginning of 2008. There was a steady drop in contributors in the year prior to the release, followed by a surge immediately after.
Total denial eh? One of KDE's main distributions are going down the drain, Gnome3 is confirmed for RHEL7 and you guys are talking about Gnome feeling pressure??
Kubuntu is not 'going down the drain'... And even if it was (which it isn't) there are other major kde distros such as opensuse.
(Emphasis mine)
Haha. So you are calling the current situation a "similar drop"? Let me educate you. KDE has so few commits right now, that you need to go back to 2005 to see a similar situation. And if August is going to end bad as expected you have to go back to f...ing 2003. KDE is dying.
But thanks anyway for sharing the count on KDE commits from the mailing lists. It shows the same trend as Ohloh and the commit digests.
*sigh* Does your dishonesty really know no bounds?
First, the commit digest only counts people who have volunteered to have their commits counted, while the numbers in the plots are total commits. That will always be lower. Second, git commits are different than svn ones, those numbers will also always be lower.
The import thing is the trend, which you asked for then promptly ignored when you got it.
So now are you not only totally ignoring what I have said (comparing SVN to GIT numbers, for example), you are back to relying on the utterly useless Ohloh numbers. Thanks for proving to everyone just how dishonest you are willing to be to smear KDE.
Ohloh useless? File a bug to the Ohloh KDE manager.
The problems with Ohloh have already been discussed. You didn't refute those problems then. Now you are pretending that whole conversation didn't happen. Do you really think everyone will just forget things that happened a few pages?
The problem here is simple: Ohloh only tracks a single git branch. Since the switch to git, KDE development has been moving more and more into individual feature branches, something that was not done with SVN. Ohloh doesn't see any code put into those. A lot of work is also being done in scratch repos that did not exist in the SVN days and are not tracked by Ohloh, either. So the numbers are completely and utterly useless for the purpose you are trying to use them for. You would know this with about 30 seconds of checking on Ohloh, but of course you didn't do that.
Last edited by TheBlackCat; 31 August 2013, 06:54 AM.
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