Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 30 Jul 2008 12:05:48 -0600 | From | Jonathan Corbet <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH, RFC] A development process document |
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On Wed, 30 Jul 2008 00:15:08 -0700 Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> I wonder a bit whether a ./Documentation update is the best way to > present this. Rather than, say, > http://www.kernel.org/read-this.html. The latter may be easier for > you to update, and we won't have the problem of people reading > two-year-old versions of the document.
I think LF wants to put it up somewhere; kernel.org is certainly a possibility too. OTOH if it's in the kernel source, others could update it too. I've always really liked the way stuff in Documentation/ stays current...
> > +The Linux kernel, at over 6 million lines of code and 2000 active > > +contributors, > > I suspect the "2000 active developers" is a bit hypey. Is a 0.5 > patch/annum developer "active"?
I was going with 1.0/year as a working number. The period v2.6.22..v2.6.26 (July 8, 2007 to July 13, 2008) had 2294 distinct contributors. About 1000 of those were a single patch. If we say that >= 2.0 is active, then the number goes to 1200. I could just say "over 1000" and be happy with that, I guess.
> Also: if the code is kept out-of-tree then there is a risk that > someone else's similar feature will be merged in mainline.
Good point, I'll add that. Everything else you pointed out is good too, consider it all added. After LWN comes out, anyway. Thanks for taking the time to read through it all.
jon
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