Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 28 May 2008 15:51:36 -0700 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: [Ksummit-2008-discuss] Fixing the Kernel Janitors project |
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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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