Thanks Rahul, it all looks like it's interesting and should be useful at
some point in the future :) Anybody got any ideas on how we can make use
of this info? Maybe in the proposed Press Kit and the history section
even?!
Best wishes,
Jon
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/RedHatContributions and in the
references.
People have done various studies on which vendors contribute how much to
the Linux kernel in particular and Red Hat in usually by a large margin
the leading contributor. That would probably be the same for GTK and
GNOME though I don't know of anyone doing any formal analysis. Then
there are other key pieces like Glibc, GCC and on more desktop neutral
stuff like HAL, DBus, Cairo, NetworkManager etc.
From the volunteer community, there are a good number of people who
contribute to various upstream projects. A few examples,
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BryanSullivan (Mercurial upstream. Refer
http://lwn.net/Articles/153990/ for a interesting detail).
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/HansdeGoede
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/KevinKofler
I am pretty sure there are several dozen more contributors such as these.