Messages in this thread | | | Subject | RE: [Ksummit-2008-discuss] How many contributors are we losing | Date | Fri, 30 May 2008 15:05:12 -0700 | From | "Luck, Tony" <> |
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> We've had some great contributions from drive-bys down the years, > and I see that as a gain rather than a loss. I suppose it's a > half-full versus half-empty perception.
Totally agree. If someone finds one bug, sends us a fix and leaves as a happy customer that is a wonderful thing.
Here's the (much shorter) list of people that contributed to two consecutive releases and then disappeared. These people made at least two contributions across a 3+ month period. In most cases this moves them out of the "drive-by" category.
Probably some of them moved on to do different things (or were promoted to manage people who still work on Linux).
-Tony
Scanning 2.6.11-2.6.12 Jeff Muizelaar Mikkel Krautz Eric Lammerts Marcel Sebek Brian Waite Werner Almesberger Giorgio Padrin Samuel Jean Hideaki YOSHIFUJI Markus Bollinger Catalin Boie Jerome Forissier Stephen Tweedie John Lenz Shannon Holland 15 never seen again
Scanning 2.6.12-2.6.13 Narendra Sankar Steven Cole Thomas Charbonnel Steven Scholz Jun Komuro Jarkko Raja Dely Sy Qu Fuping Lars Marowsky-Bree Peter Zubaj 10 never seen again
Scanning 2.6.13-2.6.14 Nick Sillik Giancarlo Formicuccia M.Baris Demiray Nick Wilson Linda Xie Victor Fusco Jan Veldeman Andreas Steinmetz 8 never seen again
Scanning 2.6.14-2.6.15 Kenneth Tan Stuart Auchterlonie Henk Felix Blyakher KOVACS Krisztian Mike Kershaw Adam Brooks Hironobu Ishii Abhay Salunke 9 never seen again
Scanning 2.6.15-2.6.16 Kylene Jo Hall Alex Aizman Rui Santos Chris Humbert Thomas Young Daniel Marjamaki Samir Bellabes Gabriel A. Devenyi Marcus Sundberg 9 never seen again
Scanning 2.6.16-2.6.17 Seiji Munetoh Mattias Nordstrom Per Liden Horst Schirmeier Marco Manenti Marcin Rudowski Holger Eitzenberger Nippun Goel Roberto Nibali Karsten Suehring 10 never seen again
Scanning 2.6.17-2.6.18 Thomas Kleffel Frank Gevaerts Laurent Meyer Catherine Zhang Jean-Luc Leger Peter Horton Tomasz Kazmierczak Dustin Kirkland Mandy Kirkconnell Bastiaan Jacques David Hollister Wu Fengguang 12 never seen again
Scanning 2.6.18-2.6.19 Manoj Naik Toralf Foerster Thiago Galesi Chris Boot matthieu castet Eric Hustvedt Ben Williamson Christoph Pfister David Wang Forrest Zhao Chuck Short Paul Collins Suparna Bhattacharya Dennis Munsie Wong Hoi Sing Edison 15 never seen again
Scanning 2.6.19-2.6.20 Ernie Petrides Ville Nuorvala Tony Olech Chris Lalancette Ira W. Snyder Kim Nordlund David Anders Sven Anders nkalmala Paul B Schroeder Chad Sellers 11 never seen again
Scanning 2.6.20-2.6.21 Amit S. Kale Sarah Bailey Dimitri Gorokhovik Cyrill V. Gorcunov Ahmed Darwish Miika Komu Thomas Hellstrom Mario Rossi Justin Chen Leonard Norrgard Dan Carpenter Masayuki Nakagawa Thomas Hisch Judith Lebzelter James C Georgas Conke Hu 16 never seen again
Scanning 2.6.21-2.6.22 Alexandr Andreev Ville-Pekka Vainio SUGIOKA Toshinobu Benjamin Li Aubrey Li Dwaine P. Garden Seth Forshee Robert Peterson Stuart Yoder Frank Mandarino Mark Glines Monakhov Dmitriy Mithlesh Thukral Andrea Paterniani 14 never seen again
Scanning 2.6.22-2.6.23 Jennifer Hunt Marc St-Jean Christian Engelmayer henry su Bill Gatliff Shani Moideen David Lamparter Tim Hockin Jan Kratochvil Marco Gittler Junio C Hamano Maik Hampel Milind Arun Choudhary Egor Martovetsky Konstantin Sharlaimov Ingo Korb Santosh Rastapur MOKUNO Masakazu Denver Gingerich 19 never seen again
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