Apple does have a handful of engineers working with/on open source projects; whether is a part of their official job duties I don’t know. But it is much appreciated. However, to the person doing open source tarballs: please respond to emails and be quicker about uploading thankyouverymuch
> whether is a part of their official job duties I don’t know
Certainly. From what I've read here on HN you basically can't publish a line of code (or even star things on Github) ob your own, presumably for secrecy reasons.
By official job duties I mean "my manager has told me to spend half my time contributing to MacPorts" versus "my manager (and my manager's manager, and their superior, all the way up the chain to the top, plus legal) has allowed me to send commits to to MacPorts even though I work on embedded platforms".
