Pointy-haired kernel hackers?
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| One could add more names to the list, but the end result would be about the
| same: the top-level kernel maintainers are not among the most prolific
| contributors (except maybe for David Miller - but, then, he's an exception in
| many regards), but neither are they absent from the game. They are still
| hacking on the code and cranking out the patches.
|
| [...]
|
| So the broadening of the kernel development community - and the associated
| need for more work by subsystem maintainers - is not really costing us our
| best developers. They are not "losing the will to code."
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http://lwn.net/Articles/240758/
Related:
Linux: Poetry in Documentation
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| Andrew Morton noted that he would consider the documentation patches for
| inclusion in the 2.6.23 kernel, to which Rusty replied, "indeed, no code
| changes, and I feel strongly that it should go into 2.6.23 because it's
| *fun*. And (as often complained) there's not enough poetry in the kernel."
| Linus Torvalds quipped, "there's a reason for that," going on to
| rhyme, "there once was a lad from Braidwood, with a wife and a hatred for
| FUD, he hacked kernels for fun, couldn't get them to run, but he always felt
| that he should." He added,
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http://kerneltrap.org/node/13992
Linux contributor base broadens
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| With more companies funding Linux work, the core hackers now delegate
| 70% of the coding
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http://www.linuxworld.com/news/2007/062807-linux-contributor-base.html
Linux Symposium 2007 - a summary
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| Greg Kroah-Hartman has been digging through the kernel source repositories
| for statistics much like your editor has. The resulting numbers are similar,
| though Greg has cranked through the full 2+ years of history in the mainline
| git repository and, thus, has a longer-term sort of view. Among other things,
| he concluded that, in that time, the kernel developers have averaged almost
| three changes per hour - every hour - during that time. About 2000 lines of
| code are added every day. That is a pace of development which is matched by
| few - if any - projects anywhere in the world. Greg also notes that the
| number of developers involved is growing with each release. This, he says, is
| a good sign; the kernel community is bringing in new developers, important to
| keep the process healthy.
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http://lwn.net/Articles/240402/
40 feet of kernel developers
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| OveQuoter 40 feet long, hopefully I can find a wall that long for people to
| be able to look at the thing...
|
| I also uploaded the PDF files if others want to try their hand at printing
| this monstrosity out.
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http://www.kroah.com/log/diary
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