Re: what about Netplan?
Luca Boccassi wrote:
>
>Networking is not static, it constantly changes in the kernel,
>sometimes in dramatic and incompatible ways.
Sorry, but no. Networking clearly is *not* changing that fast, in
software terms. Many old tools still continue to work just fine after
a decade or more.
>A widely used, well maintained stack with large amounts of
>contributors is fundamental for the default choice, because we have
>to keep up, as the rest of the world will not sit and wait for us.
>
>Here's some stats from 'git shortlog --after="2021-12-31" -sn --all'.
>In the last ~2.5 years, in netplan.io's github repo, there are only 2
>contributors with more than 100 commits, and 2 with more than 10, and
>2 of them are Canonical employees:
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> 569 Lukas Märdian
> 310 Danilo Egea Gondolfo
> 39 Simon Chopin
> 38 Danilo Egêa Gondolfo
> 11 Robert Krátký
>
>Same stat, for the same period, for systemd:
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> 6650 Yu Watanabe
> 5415 Lennart Poettering
> 2884 Luca Boccassi
> 2772 Zbigniew JÄ?drzejewski-Szmek
...
>3 companies and one independent in the 4 digits, and too many to be
>bothered to check between 10 and 999 commits.
I understand what you're trying to say, but that's a disingenuous
comparison. systemd is a massive (some would say *too* massive)
project with fingers in many pies. How many of those people have
touched *networking* bits?
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