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    SubjectRe: [Ksummit-2008-discuss] Fixing the Kernel Janitors project
    On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 05:35:27PM -0500, James Bottomley wrote:
    > On Thu, 2008-05-29 at 01:18 +0300, David Woodhouse wrote:
    > > On Wed, 2008-05-28 at 16:42 -0500, James Bottomley wrote:
    > > > Appeals to be politer tend to only work in the short term (having given
    > > > quite a few of them). I think we're developing a root cause problem in
    > > > the way we recruit people to work in the kernel and we have to think
    > > > about fixing it there.
    > >
    > > Do we really have a problem recruiting people to work in the kernel? On
    > > what do you base that observation?
    >
    > Yes, the median age of the MAINTAINERS is rising. Not quite at the rate
    > of a year per year which would show we have practically no turn over,
    > but it is rising.

    My raw numbers show that the number of individual kernel contributors
    continues to increase with every release, so this might not be as much
    of a problem as it's made out to be.

    > However, even if there were no recruitment problem at all, getting more
    > people involved is always better because it means more contributions.
    > And contributions (useful ones) are the lifeblood that moves the kernel
    > forwards.

    I agree.

    thanks,

    greg k-h


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