Post by @washbear@mastodon.sdf.org
Out of interest, why does NetBSD not have a forum to get help and ask questions?
@greylinux admins@ are already overworked hosting various services, and the community is hosting several forums which are Good Enough(tm).
ooh, I didn't know there were other forums, where are these forums?
do you mind if I ask how many developers work on NetBSD? of course I understand all the work on NetBSD is by volunteers this is all just about better understanding the team that create this amazing OS.
edit: I managed to find the forums, I somehow managed to overlook the community page on the website
@greylinux There are 138 NetBSD developers as of 2026-06-06, with varying levels of activity. Note that in this case "developers" is a synonym for "people with commit access" and "members of the foundation".
The foundation has one employee, martin, our lovely release engineer.
@washbear@mastodon.sdf.org
Thank you for the information, this is inspiring to know that so many people are working on NetBSD. I wasn't aware that foundation had a full time employee, is the aim to work towards more full time employees if the donations continue to increase?