Today, I saw a interessing post on the spacewalk-devel mailing list.
Lines of code
Spacewalk has 2,908,841 lines of code, created in estimated 843 person years. This means 843 developers are needed to rewrite Spacewalk from scratch in one year! That’s amazing.
Number of bugs fixed
As stated in the post, the Spacewalk-team fixed 1012 bugs in the year 2010. Some 1061 bugs are still due to be solved, the Spacewalk-team will not running out of work in 2011. See RHN Satellite bugs and Spacewalk bugs.
Contributions from outside Red Hat
96% of the contributions are from Red Hat people. Looks like my small contribution to the German translation is just about 0.0000001% ;-). Seriously: This should be improved. More people outside of Red Hat should contribute. How? A good way can be a better support for Debian based distributions as well as for SLES/OpenSUSE and other distributions. I think this would attracting more Red Hat outsiders.
Another important thing: Instead of mailing list posts, Fedora should release its advisories similar to Red Hat. This would enable people to have the errata in its Spacewalk servers. This would lead into more people interested in Spacewalk in the Fedora community.
Communications
The IRC communication stats can somehow be a bit problematic. Is it really needed to log all IRC traffic? Its was stated that 24.1% have been questions, the mail list post also disclosed which are the most aggressive persons and so on. Privacy? For myself: I’m probably going to change my real name nick to something else…
Missing numbers
It would be interesting how many people are subscribed to the spacewalk and spacewalk-devel mailing lists and the number of posts to these lists.
Major achievements in 2010
This is just my point of view…
– PostgreSQL support reached a point where it is ready for broad testing.
– spacewalk-repo-sync allows to directly sync with yum repos.
– Staging of content
– Support for eliminating duplicate system profiles
– Performance improvements (felt, not measured)
Did I had fun this year?
I had a lot of fun with Spacewalk, for sure. I did not challenged Spacewalk with all the stuff that I need @work with the RHN Satellite.
Will I have fun in 2011?
With Spacewalk of course, it is a cool project. If the Fedora project decides to publish Spacewalk-like erratas I’m pretty sure that France will have a problem to produce the amount of Champagne needed. If it comes down to the RHN Satellite: Due to severe bugs, I only can manage RHEL6 systems with some workarounds but I am confident that this will change soon.
In short: Yes I’ll having fun 🙂
Luc, you got it wrong with IRC. It was not that 24 % has been question. Only 24 % percent of jortel’s posts.
All this is is meant to be fun. Especially if I pronounce mcmcune as aggressive when he do “* mccun934 smacks self “.
But if you have privacy concerns, send it to mailing list and if at least somebody will agree with you, I will stop gathering this information.
Hi Miroslav,
I got it as serious, I was obviously wrong. As long as nobody’s privacy is affected, it is fine. Sorry for the mistrust.
It would help to declare the intention in future statements like that.
Thanks,
Luc