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Message-ID: <20130125021437.GA28908@thunk.org> 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 -- 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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