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Date: Wed, 28 May 2008 21:00:55 -0400 From: Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com> To: Greg KH <greg@...ah.com> Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@...el.com>, 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 05:36:57PM -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > 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. Are you just doing something like git log v2.6.16..v2.6.17 | grep ^Author: | sort -u| wc -l or do you have some script that maps addresses to people ? One person may appear once in 2.6.20, and then a half dozen times in 2.6.21 if they use multiple email addresses for example. (Also, typos, and people using full hostnames in their sign-off's instead of email addresses skew this somewhat). I'm guessing the latter, due to the graph thing you did. Pointers? Dave -- http://www.codemonkey.org.uk -- 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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