Re: [Ksummit-2008-discuss] Fixing the Kernel Janitors project

[Greg KH]

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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