[asterisk-dev] Project Governance Structure

[Russell Bryant]

Not really ...

Ohloh only shows stats on those with commit access.  Commiters !=
contributors.  If a committer merges a patch submitted by someone else via
the issue tracker, it is attributed to the committer.  Btw, git would solve
this.  ;-)  In any case, the ohloh stats at least show relative
contribution levels between the committers.  Reviewing/merging someones
patch is still a contribution of sorts.

Ohloh also provides zero insight into project governance.  There is some
information on the wiki [1].  I'd summarize the governance model as a
limited meritocracy.  It has many properties of a typical open source
meritocracy, but the project is is ultimately led and controlled by a
central entity (Digium, in this case).  Another project that has followed a
similar model would be MySQL.

[1] https://wiki.asterisk.org/wiki/display/AST/Home

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Russell Bryant


On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 9:24 AM, Tilghman Lesher <tilghman at meg.abyt.es>wrote:

> Much of what you seek can be found at the ohloh site:
>
> http://www.ohloh.net/p/asterisk
>
> On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 1:58 AM, Leni Mutungi <leni.mutungi at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > I'd also like statistics on project contributors. Who has committed most
> > code to Asterisk, the percentage etc.
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 10:51 AM, Leni Mutungi <leni.mutungi at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> Where can I find the Asterisk Project governance structure? Like who is
> in
> >> charge of what e.g. engineering manager, project supervisor. Any help
> would
> >> be highly appreciated.
> >
> >
> >
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