[harlowja]

Where are you getting the 60% number from?

From an analysis of all commits in the k8s (main) repo this is the data I am getting about domains and the breakup of which users under which domains commit/author the most.

  -----------------------
  Top 20 author (domains)
  -----------------------
  
  google.com => 16825
  gmail.com => 8220
  redhat.com => 4051
  fathomdb.com => 501
  bedafamily.com => 420
  coreos.com => 398
  huawei.com => 352
  raintown.org => 269
  zte.com.cn => 183
  mesosphere.io => 172
  zju.edu.cn => 140
  apache.org => 126
  mirantis.com => 72
  hotmail.co.uk => 67
  amadeus.com => 67
  163.com => 64
  us.ibm.com => 64
  tmrts.com => 44
  box.com => 43
  canonical.com => 42
  
  --------------------------
  Top 20 committer (domains)
  --------------------------
  
  google.com => 16655
  gmail.com => 7130
  redhat.com => 4065
  fathomdb.com => 493
  bedafamily.com => 419
  coreos.com => 388
  huawei.com => 348
  raintown.org => 268
  zte.com.cn => 180
  mesosphere.io => 174
  zju.edu.cn => 131
  apache.org => 121
  amadeus.com => 66
  163.com => 65
  us.ibm.com => 64
  hotmail.co.uk => 63
  mirantis.com => 63
  ebay.com => 53
  box.com => 43
  tmrts.com => 42

Btw you (google?) should really invest in something like http://stackalytics.com/ if the community wants to have good transparency around this type of data.

Crappy script to generate that data @ https://gist.github.com/harlowja/aca0b3c7d94c78014798fd9eb88...

[TheIronYuppie]

There's no question Google has the most code checked in, but this can be a faulty metric (generated, rebased, etc can mess up authorship).

We think it's more important around # of unique contributors, where we (Google) are <50%.

For Stackalytics - http://stackalytics.com/?project_type=kubernetes-group&metri...

Looks like my 60% number is out of date - looks like we (Google) are up to 44%. I'll have to figure out why.

Disclosure: I work at Google on Kubernetes

[otterley]

In my experience, the question of who the contributors are and how much they may contribute is less important than the question of who has control of the project.

If you're claiming that Google has delegated authority over Kubernetes to the open-source community, and therefore is not in a position to place its needs over those of the community, please say so explicitly here.

Why quibble over statistics when we can get an official statement?

[TheIronYuppie]

We, Google, have contributed 100% of Kubernetes to the Cloud Native Compute foundation, and, therefore, are not in position to place our needs over those of the community.[1]

That is not to say we (Google) do not continue to be deeply invested in its success (it's the core of our Google Container Engine), and, further, human beings who are also employed at Google _are_ core contributors to the project, but Google is not associated with the project.

[1] https://www.linuxfoundation.org/news-media/announcements/201...

Disclosure: I work at Google on Kubernetes