Right now, there are 79 people on the Inkscape source code project. One would think that 79 people are more than enough to create a good software in 22 years.
Half of them haven’t been active in 2025, and the first active member i clicked on’s commit history is “fixed a typo on the website” once this year, and once 6 months ago
It’s a shit metric because people spam OSS repos with “minor text fixes” pull requests so they can slap “inkscape contributor” on their CV.
Sure, 79 people who probably aren’t paid who volunteered however many minutes of their free time per week over 22 years (not to mention they may be active anywhere between 0-22 years on the project) vs. 300 full time employees who are salaried and do this day in day out, eight hours a day.
Right now, there are 79 people on the Inkscape source code project. One would think that 79 people are more than enough to create a good software in 22 years.
Half of them haven’t been active in 2025, and the first active member i clicked on’s commit history is “fixed a typo on the website” once this year, and once 6 months ago
It’s a shit metric because people spam OSS repos with “minor text fixes” pull requests so they can slap “inkscape contributor” on their CV.
Sure, 79 people who probably aren’t paid who volunteered however many minutes of their free time per week over 22 years (not to mention they may be active anywhere between 0-22 years on the project) vs. 300 full time employees who are salaried and do this day in day out, eight hours a day.
it’s probably more important to consider the time vs numbers of people
if 79 people are in a group but only one person has the final say, everything is bottlenecked until the one person acts
are all 79 actually programming? I suspect there’s junior and senior people and probably someone is just watching and learning more than adding
in the business program, it’s probably a team working 40+ hour weeks on a schedule with check-ins and team coherence
old small open source projects are not going to be as polished
Are all Serif employees actually programming?