Article: SpringSource Release Train Chugs Along

[karldmoore]

http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759...119TX1K0000594

[pmularien]

Interesting to see Spring covered in a mass media publication like eWeek. One of the things that makes me a bit uncomfortable about the article is the way it was written - it sounded like SpringSource "owns" the Spring portfolio. I've always been kind of curious about this - how many non-i21/SpringSource committers are there across the Spring products?

[karldmoore]

There was some discussion about this in this post. You should be able to get a list of developers from JIRA.
http://blog.interface21.com/main/200...t-open-source/

[pmularien]

Well, I looked in JIRA, but I can't find a way to tell who's who as a standard user. Looking at the bug assignments in 'Spring Framework', it seems that all the assignees are SpringSource employees (I believe):

By Assignee
Adrian Colyer 2
Ben Hale 4 1%
Colin Sampaleanu 2
Costin Leau 7 1%
John Lewis 8 1%
Juergen Hoeller 183 25%
Mark Fisher 3
Ramnivas Laddad 6 1%
Rob Harrop 27 4%
Sam Brannen 2
Thomas Risberg 12 2%

[karldmoore]

If you look at some of the other projects though, I'm not sure everyone is an employee. There is also a list on the sourceforge page.
http://sourceforge.net/project/membe...group_id=73357

[Jörg Heinicke]

Couldn't SpringSource provide some kind of official numbers? What do I know who is or was employee from this list. But to be honest I also thought up to now that Spring is - despite open source - a closed-community project. I never saw somebody becoming a committer. But maybe this process is just not public.

Joerg

[pmularien]

That is my impression, too. Maybe I'll try writing to Rod or Juergen and see what they say.