IT Home reported on December 18 that, according to CCTV, the number of open source software developers in China has exceeded 8 million, ranking second in the world.
At the Open Atom Developers Conference held on December 16-17, Feng Guanlin, Secretary General of the Open Atom Open Source Association, said: "At present, 97% of developers and 99% of enterprises are using open source software, and the number of developers we should rank second in the world. ”
Open source software is a kind of software developed through distributed means, which has the characteristics of openness, use, modification, and distribution. As a new collaboration model originating from the software industry, open source is becoming an important force driving the development of the global information technology industry.
According to the "2022 China Open Source Developer Report", the number of open source developers in China exceeds 50 million, accounting for more than 20% of the total number of open source developers in the world.
According to the data, China's open source developers are mainly concentrated in the Internet, IT services, software development and other industries. As the number of open source developers in China increases, their contributions to the open source community are becoming more and more prominent, and their influence in the international open source community is also increasing.
According to GitHub's 2022 annual report, Chinese developers contribute more than 10 million repositories, accounting for more than 15% of the global repositories.
In addition, Chinese developers currently contribute more than 50 million repositories on Gitee, accounting for more than 50% of the global repositories. At Apache **, Chinese developers contributed more than 100 projects, accounting for more than 10% of the global project population.