A turning point for GNU libc [LWN.net]

A turning point for GNU libc

Posted Mar 29, 2012 10:24 UTC (Thu) by dgm (subscriber, #49227)
Parent article: A turning point for GNU libc

> The 2.15 release suggests that development activity is on the increase after a sustained low point.

It's too early to say that. If you have a look at the patches/day ratio you get the following numbers:

release: patches per day
2.4: 4.2208
2.5: 1.6811594203
2.6: 1.5657894737
2.7: 2.858974359
2.8: 1.5875706215
2.9: 1.3627906977
2.10: 1.9435028249
2.11: 2.3448275862
2.12: 2.1027027027
2.13: 1.0077220077
2.14: 1.9104477612
2.15: 2.8252427184

The 2.7 release was busier than 2.15, and 2.11 amd 2.12 were not that far behind. But by far the most active period was that leading to 2.4.

If you plot that data, you can convince your self that the project had moved ahead at an almost steady rate of about 2 patches per day.

PS: Is there a sane way to enter tabular data in a comment?

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A turning point for GNU libc

Posted Mar 29, 2012 16:53 UTC (Thu) by cortana (subscriber, #24596) [Link]

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2.4:   4.2208
2.5:   1.6811594203
2.6:   1.5657894737
2.7:   2.858974359
2.8:   1.5875706215
2.9:   1.3627906977
2.10:  1.9435028249
2.11:  2.3448275862
2.12:  2.1027027027
2.13:  1.0077220077
2.14:  1.9104477612
2.15:  2.8252427184