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Date:	Thu, 24 Jan 2013 21:14:37 -0500
From:	Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
To:	Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu
Cc:	Chen Gang <gang.chen@...anux.com>,
	Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [Consult] Plan: personal contributes plan for 2013

On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 06:31:03PM -0500, Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu wrote:
> >
> > 10 patches per month: (at least)
> 
> Even Dave Miller only averages 12-15 patches a month, and he does it
> for a living, and they're all in the one part of the kernel he
> maintains.  It's going to be a really hard time for a newcomer to
> get up to speed enough to produce a useful and usable patch every 3
> days on the average, especially across multiple areas of the kernel.

Just to be curious, I checked the number of commits I've done in the
past 12 months, and it's 99, for an average of a bit over 8 patches a
month.  (via "git log --author=tytso --since="1 year ago" --oneline |
wc -l")

More importantly, it's important to shoot for quality, not quantity.
10 patches a month which fixes whitespaces in code that you're not
touching anyway just generates work for maintainers without materially
improving the quality of the kernel.

	      				- Ted
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