Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 24th Sep 2007 17:43 UTC, submitted by SEJeff
While the kernel 2.6.23 development cycle has not yet run its course, things are getting close enough to the end that it makes sense to start looking at the overall statistics for this release. As of this writing (shortly after 2.6.23-rc6 came out), just over 6,200 non-merge changesets had been added to the mainline kernel repository. These changesets came from 854 developers - a slightly smaller number than we saw for 2.6.22. Just over 350 of those developers contributed one single changeset. On a related note, LWN.net has a number of reports from the Linux Kernel Developer's Summit.
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RE[2]: do we really care?
by wirespot on Tue 25th Sep 2007 16:24
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Unfortunately this kind of statistics mean nothing. If you've ever worked on a project under a version control system you'll know that "N lines added, M lines deleted" give absolutely no insight on the quality or even quantity of work that went in these modifications. It's a seductive play upon figures, and many first timers fall for it, but eventually learn better. The same goes for number of commits and so on.
Edited 2007-09-25 16:32
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2006-03-12
Its quite different from the usual *written* by companies comments. It actually tries to describe which groups write what. Which I found interesting...but not altogether unsurprising.
The other Gem that jumps out and its on the first page is this "the patches added almost 430,000 lines, but also removed 406,000 lines, meaning that the kernel grew by just under 23,000". To be fair its nice to have an article that actually makes very little judgments.
Considering the improvements that have gone into this version...those are welcome statistics.