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correlation and serious work

correlation and serious work

Posted Jul 6, 2008 3:25 UTC (Sun) by pflugstad (subscriber, #224)
Parent article: Some development statistics for 2.6.26 - and beyond

Which just reinforces an important point: there is interest and information in counting changesets and lines changed, but the correlation between those numbers and serious accomplishments in kernel programming is weak at best.

Maybe it would be interesting to re-run the numbers, but skip the drivers/ tree?


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