linux-kernel - Re: [Ksummit-2008-discuss] How many contributors are we losing

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0805302205160.28487@blonde.site>
Date:	Fri, 30 May 2008 22:13:01 +0100 (BST)
From:	Hugh Dickins <hugh@...itas.com>
To:	"Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@...el.com>
cc:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>, Dave Jones <davej@...hat.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] How many contributors are we losing

On Fri, 30 May 2008, Luck, Tony wrote:
> 
> I took those cleaned up log files (which run from 2.6.11 to 2.6.22) and
> created some new ones (raw, I didn't try to clean them) for 2.6.23, 2.6.24,
> 2.6.25 and 2.6.26-sofar.  Then I skimmed through looking for drive-by
> contributors (defined as someone who contributes to just one release and
> is then never heard from again).

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.

Interesting list, but as you admit, yes, there are a lot of false
positives in there.  Just to pick on one ...

> ==== Scanning 2.6.11
> Theodore Y. Ts'o

... anyone know what happened to that guy?

Hugh
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