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Statistics for the 3.3 development cycleStatistics for the 3.3 development cyclePosted Mar 8, 2012 10:16 UTC (Thu) by dunlapg (subscriber, #57764)Parent article: Statistics for the 3.3 development cycle
The numbers are somewhat noisy, but the trend over the last four years suggests that volunteers are not contributing as much as they once were. There's a lower percentage, but are they actually fewer on an absolute scale -- either in number of individual contributors, lines changed or # of changesets? Or is it possible that because there are more companies contributing (e.g., mobile device manufacturers), that it's just the relative percentage that's going down, and the actual amount contributed by volunteers is remaining steady, or even growing?
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Statistics for the 3.3 development cycle Posted Mar 8, 2012 11:28 UTC (Thu) by epa (subscriber, #39769) [Link]
How about instrumenting the kernel to give contribution by CPU time? Although unfortunately that would reward authors of slower code...
Statistics for the 3.3 development cycle Posted Mar 10, 2012 2:27 UTC (Sat) by bronson (subscriber, #4806) [Link]
Maybe LOC divided by CPU time?
Although I guess this would cause everybody to needlessly unroll their loops.
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