Greg Stein <gstein@lyra.org> writes:
> CollabNet's funding isn't disappearing, but in a way you're right. CollabNet
> alone cannot bring Subversion to 1.0, so the community is *very* important.
> Personally, I think the SVN development (and user) community is one of the
> best that I know. A lot of people are very interested, and (more
> importantly) willing to provide their own time to see SVN reach its 1.0
> goal.
>
> I would say that when you're talking *money*, then SVN is underfunded. But
> when you're talking about community's interest, dedication, and willingness
> to spend their time... SVN is very well funded. The SVN community is more
> than capable of seeing SVN reach a 1.0 release, and then to take it much
> further.
I confess I originally tried to discourage Greg from even responding
to this thread, but now that I see what he wrote, I want to follow up
just to say "Hear, hear!" :-)
Subversion is funded in the currency of the open source world --
developer attention. CollabNet's money makes some of that possible,
but over time the *proportion* of developer attention paid for by
CollabNet has been going down (though not down in absolute terms), and
this is a good thing for everyone. Let's hope the trend continues.
-K
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Received on Sat Nov 2 01:43:51 2002