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.

[–] bjorney@lemmy.ca 12 points 2 days ago

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.

[–] peregrin5@lemm.ee 10 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

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.

[–] thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

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