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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 -- 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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