On the Apache server the core team duties are distributed among 20 or so people, but only six to eight are active at any point in time.
I don`t get a chance to code any more.
I think the most that I`ve learned has been, how do I put this? The innate goodness inside of all of us.
And, I think that is actually appropriate because I`m really not the world`s best programmer, I think it`s a good thing that I`m not touching the code.
So that`s my main role right now and really the politics also includes going out and communicating to the world why Apache is a good thing, why companies should be involved in it, and why individuals should be involved in it too.
And that is reassuring, to see people who are very positive - five years after the first explosion, the first release of code - is a very good thing.
Certainly I get a lot personally out of it as well, there`s the recognition and things like that but mostly I try to take that as an opportunity to explain why I hope we could see more projects like Apache out there and why it`s a good thing for society.