Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 28 May 2008 17:36:57 -0700 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: [Ksummit-2008-discuss] Fixing the Kernel Janitors project |
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On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 04:23:52PM -0700, Luck, Tony wrote: > > My raw numbers show that the number of individual kernel contributors > > continues to increase with every release, so this might not be as much > > of a problem as it's made out to be. > > That depends on whether we are gradually adding to the pool > of developers, or seeing an increasing stream of newcomers > who supply a patch or two before disappearing again. > > If you look at the list of contributors some old release for > which we have good data (say 2.6.16). How many of those people > contributed to each of the following releases? Does the > decay curve look steeper or more gentle if you start from > a more recent release?
I don't know, I haven't tracked the people individually that way, only looked at the basic numbers of developers per release.
thanks,
greg k-h
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