Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] KS Topic request: Handling the Stable kernel, let's dump the cc: stable tag | From | Joe Perches <> | Date | Mon, 15 Jul 2013 14:34:06 -0700 |
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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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