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Linux Mint's success also means maintainer stress - The Register (www.theregister.com)
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[–] 22 points 6 months ago* (10 children)

As usual, most people don't contribute back in any way (money, nor code, nor documentation).

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  • [–] [S] 40 points 6 months ago (5 children)

    Might want to read the article first. Mint has received more donations last month than any on record for them, $47,000.

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  • [–] 10 points 6 months ago (4 children)

    I read that. How many users do they have? 47k seems like a lot but how many devs does that really pay for? The answer is obviously "not enough". Otherwise they wouldn't be talking about dev pressure.

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  • [–] [S] 50 points 6 months ago*

    That amount of money a month is extremely substantial for an open-source project, and especially for a non-corporate distro. It also far exceeds previous years.

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    The pressure mostly seems to be from adding wayland support to Cinnamon, combined with perhaps maintaining more projects at too regular an interval than their team can chew.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    That amount of money is one developer full time maybe. Which can make a really, really big difference for an Open Source project actually.

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