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