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Some numbers and thoughts on the stable kernels

Some numbers and thoughts on the stable kernels

Posted Aug 30, 2010 8:04 UTC (Mon) by spaetz (subscriber, #32870)
In reply to: Some numbers and thoughts on the stable kernels by corbet
Parent article: Some numbers and thoughts on the stable kernels

>Who is ever really off the clock in this field?

As a side note, I have seen some research on commit patterns across projects and it was really entertaining to see some projects following strict Mo-Fri 9-5 patterns while others (also including commercial developers) committed all over the place including weekends, nights etc.

I would love to see that research across a wide range


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Some numbers and thoughts on the stable kernels

Posted Aug 31, 2010 21:16 UTC (Tue) by hingo (guest, #14792) [Link]

I've been playing with the idea of producing similar stats for MySQL/MariaDB development, to benchmark it against Linux and other similar projects. This is an excellent idea to add to the analysis! Thanks.

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