TheDash
October 18, 2018, 3:54am
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gbiggs:
Not only that, but different segments use, contribute, and maintain different types code. I think seeing a breakdown and a graph of these relationships of that would be really valuable.
One thing you could do to get an idea of what companies are contributing to ROS would be to look at all the known packages and see which have author or maintainer emails that are from companies. That would give you an idea of, for example, how much time Clearpath is putting in to maintaining open source software used beyond their own business.
This page is probably the best way to get that info. ROS packages for Kinetic - 2021-06-01 22:32:58 -0800
I was curious as well so i just hacked up a quick script so I could visualize who maintains what. The script can be found here (and you can change it for each distribution if you’d like by modifying the ‘site’ variable in the file)
The result is this:
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