LWN compares how Google and Igalia develop Chromium in very different ways
signa11 · hn · 2026-10-16
LWN's article contrasts Chromium development at Google — the dominant steward with massive full-time engineering and bespoke infrastructure — and Igalia, a distributed consultancy maintaining specific subsystems (GPU, accessibility, etc.) with small teams. It examines their differing contribution flows, review cultures, resourcing, and what that asymmetry means for the upstream open source community.
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