Some numbers from the 4.6 development cycle [LWN.net]

Some numbers from the 4.6 development cycle

Posted May 12, 2016 18:43 UTC (Thu) by ianmcc (guest, #88379)
Parent article: Some numbers from the 4.6 development cycle

1,661 developers. How does that compare to something like the Windows kernel? I guess it is difficult to make a comparison, a lot of the work is probably in drivers and the development models are quite different. But 1661 seems like a large number, so it would be interesting to see some other stats (eg how many people does Microsoft employ to work on their kernel?).

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Some numbers from the 4.6 development cycle

Posted May 12, 2016 19:48 UTC (Thu) by dlang (guest, #313) [Link] (1 responses)

Also keep in mind, that's the number of people who have changes in this release, the people who will have changes in the next release are not all the same.

some of this is people submitting small patches, some of it is people working on larger projects that don't show up until they are done.

There's also the part-time vs full-time question, so you really are comparing apples to oranges.

Some numbers from the 4.6 development cycle

Posted May 12, 2016 20:16 UTC (Thu) by dlang (guest, #313) [Link]

http://www.cio.com/article/3069529/linux/linux-is-the-lar...