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Date: Wed, 28 May 2008 17:36:57 -0700 From: Greg KH <greg@...ah.com> To: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@...el.com> Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senpartnership.com>, ksummit-2008-discuss@...ts.linux-foundation.org, Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>, David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>, linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org> Subject: Re: [Ksummit-2008-discuss] Fixing the Kernel Janitors project 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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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