Open source code maintainers

I guess not all of you heard of this job in the open source community - a Maintainer.
The maintainer of a project is a developer in the project that is allowed to check in code into the project. He's entitled to this by the community and it is ofcourse based on his skills.

Yet, this can pop up some interesting ethic issues like what if the maintainer is from a competitive company to the developer who sent the code update? For example - AMD and Intel...

Looks like the open source community is highly reliable as it allows such a positions to exist - and yet keep the projects stable and reliable AND up to date.
In many cases, such communities include people from all over the world and all over the business eco system.
I've got my view over this from a good friend - Avi Kiviti. See here an interview with him.

Jazz - the new IBM Rational collaborative development platform

Seems like IBM takes MS Team System couple more steps ahead.
Just like in many other places where IBM extends the ideas into new domains, seems like here IBM takes the collaborative development into new areas.
IBM does it in couple of ways:
1. Shared project - Jazz platform is managed like an open source project, although it is completely commercial and IBM. People are encouraged to participate and share their ideas.
2. The Jazz platform brings in ALL the development life cycle tools together with collaboration tools - supporting GDD (Global Distributed Development).
See www.jazz.net and Jazz Videos.

OS Application Statistics

I just ran into this interesting site, with interesting statistics about open source applications usage. It is ofcourse based on participant but indeed looks relevant.

Open Source Application Statistics

Mugshot and Fedora developers are working on ways to browse and find popular applications. Here are the current statistics for users sharing application usage with us. Read the full details

Site - http://mugshot.org/applications

Messi - One of a kind

Stop the technology - Lionel Messi is here...
This is indeed the most amazing score in the last several years.
Messi in action - Spain cup semi finals