linux-kernel - Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] KS Topic request: Handling the Stable kernel, let's dump the cc: stable tag

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Date:	Mon, 15 Jul 2013 14:34:06 -0700
From:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Cc:	Willy Tarreau <w@....eu>,
	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senPartnership.com>,
	ksummit-2013-discuss@...ts.linuxfoundation.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] KS Topic request: Handling the Stable
 kernel, let's dump the cc: stable tag

On Mon, 2013-07-15 at 17:21 -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> How many maintainers are really just volunteers?

No idea.  Here's a data point.

$ git grep "^S:" MAINTAINERS|sed -r 's/\s+/ /g'|sort|uniq -c|sort -rn
    818 MAINTAINERS:S: Maintained
    248 MAINTAINERS:S: Supported
     49 MAINTAINERS:S: Odd Fixes
     32 MAINTAINERS:S: Orphan
     10 MAINTAINERS:S: Odd fixes
      2 MAINTAINERS:S: Unmaintained
      1 MAINTAINERS:S: Orphan / Obsolete
      1 MAINTAINERS:S: Odd Fixes (e.g., new signatures)
      1 MAINTAINERS:S: Obsolete
      1 MAINTAINERS:S: Maintained for 2.6.
      1 MAINTAINERS:S: Maintained:
      1 MAINTAINERS:S: Buried alive in reporters

I will note that most MAINTAINER section entries
don't actually have people actively shepherding
patches.  There's no aging out of inactive entries.

> And of those, how many have critical parts of the kernel
> that distros rely on.

No idea.  I'd guess most distributions don't go
out of their way to hire folk when "good enough"
seems to be working.

> If they do, then one would think that a distro
> would hire them.


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