Friday, November 04, 2005

eclipse collaboration in 2005

Check out Ward's map of eclipse committers.

[A 'committer' in open source projects is someone with the right to alter the code base without additional authorization. The committer rights are tied to the individual, not the company she/he works for. A developer gets committer rights from the existing committers, not from any company.
At eclipse.org, two committers are elected to the board of directors. They have voting rights equal to representatives from sponsoring organizations like Oracle, SAP, IBM, Borland, Sybase, etc. who put in up to $250,000 per year, depending upon their revenues.]

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