Yeah, see, disagreeing with you and trolling are different things. Trolling would be more like creating an account just to make personal attacks and defend RH. Anyways. This is a pain to get hard numbers for but
https://hpjansson.org/blag/2020/12/16/on-the-graying-of-gnom... seems decent enough; based on that, @redhat.com represents ~13,000 commits out of ~50,000 commits with
all other groups combined not even coming close, which means that even as a technical minority overall RH has a massive amount of influence. Or as the author puts it,
> Top 15 affiliations again, but now ordered by commit counts. It's safe to say that GNOME is dependent on paid developers in a big way. Specifically, and to no one's surprise, it leans heavily on Red Hat.
So yes, it is true.
> what makes you think Red Hat wants to start paying those costs?
Well no, I'm sure they don't want to. And hey, it's Red Hat's devs, so at some level I can't blame them for serving RH's interests above the user. Just as they can't blame me for abandoning their function-poor toy desktop environment.
> Top 15 affiliations again, but now ordered by commit counts. It's safe to say that GNOME is dependent on paid developers in a big way. Specifically, and to no one's surprise, it leans heavily on Red Hat.
So yes, it is true.
> what makes you think Red Hat wants to start paying those costs?
Well no, I'm sure they don't want to. And hey, it's Red Hat's devs, so at some level I can't blame them for serving RH's interests above the user. Just as they can't blame me for abandoning their function-poor toy desktop environment.