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The Linux Foundation's kernel development report is out
The Linux Foundation has announced
the release of its roughly annual report on the kernel development
community; this report is written by Greg Kroah-Hartman, Amanda McPherson,
and LWN editor Jonathan Corbet. There won't be much new there for those
who follow the development statistics on LWN, but it does take a bit of a
longer time perspective.
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The Linux Foundation's kernel development report is out Posted Sep 17, 2013 11:00 UTC (Tue) by mcfrisk (subscriber, #40131) [Link]
Why is the PDF requiring registration/"Sign Up"? Does not compute to me.
The Linux Foundation's kernel development report is out Posted Sep 17, 2013 13:34 UTC (Tue) by SEJeff (subscriber, #51588) [Link]
See if this works:
http://go.linuxfoundation.org/l/6342/-pub-who-writes-linu...
The Linux Foundation's kernel development report is out Posted Sep 17, 2013 16:29 UTC (Tue) by gioele (subscriber, #61675) [Link]
The link the PDF file does work, but Ghostery blocks it.
> Ghostery prevented a redirect from
The Linux Foundation's kernel development report is out Posted Sep 19, 2013 14:38 UTC (Thu) by kushal (subscriber, #50806) [Link]
Yes, it works :)
I made few small charts from the data in the report.
http://kushaldas.in/posts/kernel-development-stats-in-201...
The Linux Foundation's kernel development report is out Posted Sep 17, 2013 14:37 UTC (Tue) by mnx327 (guest, #92906) [Link]
Disappointing to see Canonical aren't listed as a key contributor anywhere in the report. After a few years I hoped they wouldn't keep riding on the coattails of others.
The Linux Foundation's kernel development report is out Posted Sep 17, 2013 17:45 UTC (Tue) by andrewsomething (subscriber, #53527) [Link]
A quick browse show that they're around ~300 commits in 2013.
http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linu...
The Linux Foundation's kernel development report is out Posted Sep 17, 2013 22:56 UTC (Tue) by ean5533 (subscriber, #69480) [Link]
I thought that Canonical's contribution might look reasonable when viewed as commits-per-employee, but even with that adjustment they still don't look great.
Canonical: 294/500 = 0.588 changes per employee
All employee counts are sourced from Wikipedia.
The Linux Foundation's kernel development report is out Posted Sep 17, 2013 23:53 UTC (Tue) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313) [Link]
this is measuring changes to the kernel, not the total amount of development in all areas.
Canonical has never been focused on pushing forward on the state of the art of the kernel, it's been focused on userspace and the user experience (to use a buzzword :-)
you may disagree with what they are doing with unity and other things, but a lot of people find the usability of Ubuntu significantly better than other distros.
The Linux Foundation's kernel development report is out Posted Sep 19, 2013 1:48 UTC (Thu) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389) [Link]
> user experience (to use a buzzword :-)
Psh. Words. Isn't it "UX" these days?
The Linux Foundation's kernel development report is out Posted Sep 20, 2013 2:02 UTC (Fri) by jzbiciak (✭ supporter ✭, #5246) [Link]
As in "Superior User eXperience" (SUX)? ;-)
(I keed! I keeeed!)
The Linux Foundation's kernel development report is out Posted Sep 24, 2013 9:12 UTC (Tue) by jospoortvliet (subscriber, #33164) [Link] Ah, name a few other big projects they contribute to, then? Like, I dunno, GNOME, or KDE, LibreOffice? Infrastructure, then? Apache, WebKit, systemd, GTK, Qt or Wayland? Ah, no, instead they build their own things which no other distribution uses? And how exactly is that helpful? Paraphrasing what Aaron said a while ago: are we trying to write good Free Software or just heaps of it? Let me be clear, I hope they start to contribute at some point, somewhere. I had/have some hopes they could work with Qt as they are moving to it as infrastructure. Let's see.
The Linux Foundation's kernel development report is out Posted Sep 24, 2013 9:36 UTC (Tue) by spaetz (subscriber, #32870) [Link]
> Ah, name a few other big projects they contribute to, then? Like, I dunno, GNOME, or KDE, LibreOffice?
Give them *some* credit:
Yes, a full-time developer on Libreoffice since 2011:
http://www.gnome.org/foundation/ is hosted by (it says so in the footer) and apparently "supported" by canonical.
> Infrastructure, then? Apache, WebKit, systemd, GTK, Qt or Wayland?
not systemd, but the older upstart which was/is used by RHEL. It is not entirely their fault that someone else started a competitor.
Sure, they are not exactly the pinnacle of OSS contributions towards a common eco system, but it's not like they keep too much stuff propietary either.
The Linux Foundation's kernel development report is out Posted Sep 27, 2013 17:39 UTC (Fri) by JanC_ (guest, #34940) [Link]
Actually, Canonical *is* a relatively big contributor to "systemd", because of their contributions to udev, which is part of systemd now…
The Linux Foundation's kernel development report is out Posted Sep 17, 2013 15:52 UTC (Tue) by rvfh (subscriber, #31018) [Link]
Note for the next edition: NVIDIA is meant to be written in capitals, like SUSE :-)
The Linux Foundation's kernel development report is out Posted Sep 17, 2013 15:53 UTC (Tue) by ms (subscriber, #41272) [Link]
Obviously this is a very minor point and has nothing to do with the actual content, but it's odd that every page is offset to the right as if it's a right-hand (odd) page. Something 'odd' with the guttering setup on whatever was used to produce that document...
The Linux Foundation's kernel development report is out Posted Sep 18, 2013 6:13 UTC (Wed) by MKesper (subscriber, #38539) [Link]
What's much worse is choosing grey on white instead of black on white.
FAIL!
Grey on white Posted Sep 19, 2013 13:02 UTC (Thu) by oldtomas (guest, #72579) [Link]
That's to keep you from photocopying it...
(SCNR. Now back to writing XSLTs. Ugh).
The Linux Foundation's kernel development report is out Posted Sep 17, 2013 16:34 UTC (Tue) by dpquigl (subscriber, #52852) [Link]
I see an odd discrepancy with the numbers on the tables having to do with sign-off lines. The first table on page 10 seems to be individuals who have signed off on patches and how many sign-offs they have given. Then they do the same table but assign people to the companies they represent. Based on the cover of the document Greg KH is employed by the Linux Foundation. That alone would mean that the Linux Foundation should have at least 9,965 sign-offs due to Greg alone. However if you look at the company table they are listed as only having 9,561. I'd imagine this is just a bug in their scripts but its worth trying to figure out and fix.
The Linux Foundation's kernel development report is out Posted Sep 17, 2013 20:53 UTC (Tue) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389) [Link]
I imagine someone could contribute on the clock (and use their @company.org address) as well as personal (and use @name.com). I like to keep things separate like this, so how would that get counted?
The Linux Foundation's kernel development report is out Posted Sep 17, 2013 21:33 UTC (Tue) by bfields (subscriber, #19510) [Link] I'm pretty sure he changed employers during the covered time period.
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