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Linux Mint's success also means maintainer stress - The Register (www.theregister.com)

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[-] onlinepersona@programming.dev 12 points 2 weeks ago

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.

[-] WebleyFrog@piefed.social 48 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks 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.

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.

[-] LeFantome@programming.dev 3 points 2 weeks ago

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

[-] asdfasdfasdf@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

That amount of money is one developer full time maybe

$564,000 / year??? I'd think definitely two, maybe three.

[-] RamenJunkie@midwest.social 1 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah, feels like 3-4.

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